Otho Lovering

The Green Berets -- John Wayne stars in this war drama about a cynical war correspondent whose paper doesn't believe the U.S. should be involved in Vietnam.

Cheyenne Autumn -- John Ford's last Western masterpiece chronicles the struggle by Cheyenne Indians to migrate homeward across the Great Plains in 1878.

An ex-sheriff, Ben Kane, tracks down the man who killed his son, Frank Boone, and seeks the help of a hired gunman, Billy Young, who was abandoned by his partner after killing a Mexican general. Kane becomes a marshal of Lordsburg and falls in love with a dance hall girl, Lily Beloit. When John Behan and Jesse Boone tries to kill Kane, Lily warns Kane of this. He arrests Boone and uses him as bait when he finds out that he is the son of Frank Boone.

This saga of the wagon-train journey of a group of Western pioneers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon along the historic Oregon Trail (from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.) is known for its breathtaking photography of the Western expanse (by William H. Clothier). Kirk Douglas portrays a widowed senator who leads the wagon train, and Robert Mitchum plays the troubled trail scout--a man plagued by poor eyesight. The trials of the trail include Indian attacks and the inevitable human conflicts of men and women who are living in close quarters in a volatile, tense and dangerous atmosphere. Among the members of the party: a highly irascible and colorful Richard Widmark, and Sally Field in her first film role.