The last western made by the great John Ford is effectively an apology for the many wrongs done by Hollywood to the American Indian. It maintains tremendous dignity in those sections actually dealing with the tragic resettlement of the Cheyenne by the US government, but it is undermined by a tasteless would-be comic central section set in Dodge City, irrelevantly featuring an ill-cast James Stewart as Wyatt Earp. Still, here's Ford's beloved Monument Valley and a distinguished cast headed by the ever underrated Richard Widmark in a story of genuine epic scale: make some tea in the middle.

A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.