While Arthur Kennedy is listed in the credits along with John Carradine, James Stewart, as Wyatt Earp, is missing. I don't know why, but maybe he realized how terrible that Dodge City scene was and didn't want his name to be on this film. I don't know if I've ever seen that before.
IMDB does not list him in their credits as well. Interesting.
He is listed on the "Full Cast and Crew" page.
I'm no expert, but . . . .
from IMDB trivia:
According to both John Ford and James Stewart, Ford added the segment with Stewart in place of an intermission. Ford didn't want people leaving the auditorium to go the bathroom or concessions counter, even though the film was long, and so he came up with the Wyatt Earp segment. He later quipped to Stewart that the actor was the "best intermission" in the movies.
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That's not true. I saw the film in 70mm and it did have an intermission - in the middle of the Dodge City sequence.
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Reviews of Cheyenne Autumn were modest and were mostly in sync. Among the bigger points of criticism were the length and the sluggish pace of the film, as well as the odd comedy sequence set in Dodge City, featuring James Stewart in a cameo role as Wyatt Earp. Ford had intended this sequence to stand as a sort of comical intermission, an interlude of lightness from the heavy drama of the Cheyenne's relentless journey. According to Peter Bogdanovich: "In initial engagements, the studio ruined the effect of this 'intermission'-a comedy sequence in the midst of an otherwise tragic story-by arbitrarily placing an actual intermission in the middle of it. In subsequent engagements of the film, the point of the sequence was obliterated when the entire second half showing 'the Battle of Dodge City' (which had followed the studio's intermission) was deleted."
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Watching the credits as I type this. James Stewart is listed as James Stewart as Wyatt Earp.
shareWatching the credits as I type this. James Stewart is listed as James Stewart as Wyatt EarpJust watched the film and both he and Edward G Robinson were listed at the end of the main cast list with Stewart indeed listed as:
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Just saw the Jimmy Stewart/Wyatt Earp sequence on TCM and the intermission comes after the entire Stewart portion. The narrator says something like, "And so ends the great Dodge City battle against the Cheyenne," immediately followed by Intermission. Funnily enough the only Cheyenne was a lone warrior on a distant hillside, not even rattled by half of Dodge City shooting their guns and firing everywhere but at the Cheyenne. I love Jimmy Stewart so I didn't mind the sequence.
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I'm reading the book "Jimmy Stewart". You are indeed a Jimmy Stewart fan if you know his middle name starts with an "M".
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