Buffalo Bill (film)
Buffalo Bill | |
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Directed by | William A. Wellman |
Produced by |
Harry Sherman Darryl F. Zanuck |
Written by |
Aeneas MacKenzie Clements Ripley Cecile Kramer Frank Winch - Story John Larkin (uncredited) |
Starring |
Joel McCrea Maureen O'Hara Linda Darnell Thomas Mitchell |
Narrated by | Reed Hadley (uncredited) |
Music by | David Buttolph |
Cinematography | Leon Shamroy |
Edited by | James B. Clark |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2 million[1] |
Buffalo Bill (1944) is a Technicolor biographical Western about the life of the legendary frontiersman Buffalo Bill Cody, directed by William A. Wellman and starring Joel McCrea and Maureen O'Hara with Linda Darnell, Thomas Mitchell (as Ned Buntline), Edgar Buchanan and Anthony Quinn in supporting roles.
Plot
A fictionalized account of the life of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody (Joel McCrea), a hunter and Army Scout who rescues a US Senator and his beautiful daughter, Louisa Frederici (Maureen O'Hara); Federici eventually becomes his devoted wife. Cody is portrayed as someone who admires and respects the Indians. He is a good friend of Yellow Hand, who will eventually become Chief of the Cheyenne. Public opinion is against the Indians, and military leaders, politicians and businessmen are prepared to take their lands and destroy their hunting grounds for their own profit. Cody is eventually forced to fight the Cheyenne on their behalf. He meets a writer, Ned Buntline (Thomas Mitchell), whose accounts of Cody's exploits make him a sensation in the eastern United States and Europe. He establishes a wild west show that becomes an international sensation. His career as a performer is threatened when he takes a stand against the mistreatment of the Native American population.
Cast
- Joel McCrea as Buffalo Bill Cody
- Maureen O'Hara as Louisa Frederici
- Linda Darnell as Dawn Starlight
- Thomas Mitchell as Ned Buntline
- Edgar Buchanan as Sergeant Chips McGraw
- Anthony Quinn as Chief Yellow Hand
- Moroni Olsen as Senator Frederici
- Frank Fenton as Murdo Carvell
- Matt Briggs as General Blazier
- George Lessey as Schyler Vandervere
- Frank Orth as Sherman - Shooting Gallery Owner
- John Dilson as President Rutherford B. Hayes (uncredited)
- Sidney Blackmer as Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
- Reed Hadley as Narrator (uncredited)
Production
Parts of the film were shot in Johnson Canyon and Paria, Utah.[2]:287
See also
References
- ↑ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 220
- ↑ D'Arc, James V. (2010). When Hollywood came to town: A history of moviemaking in Utah (1st ed.). Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith. ISBN 9781423605874.
External links
- Buffalo Bill on IMDb
- Buffalo Bill at the TCM Movie Database
- Buffalo Bill at AllMovie