Buffalo Bill (1944)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

William A. Wellman

Writers:

Æneas MacKenzie (screenplay) &
Clements Ripley (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

April 1944 (USA)

Genre:

Biography | Western

Plot:

The story of William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, legendary westerner, from his days as an army scout to his later activities as owner of a Wild West show.

Plot Keywords:

Scout | Wild West | Ethics | Railway | New York City

Cast

Joel McCrea	...	William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
Maureen O'Hara	...	Louisa Frederici Cody
Linda Darnell	...	Dawn Starlight
Thomas Mitchell	...	Ned Buntline
Edgar Buchanan	...	Sergeant Chips McGraw
Anthony Quinn	...	Chief Yellow Hand
Moroni Olsen	...	Senator Frederici
Frank Fenton	...	Murdo Carvell
Matt Briggs	...	General Blazier
George Lessey	...	Mr. Schyler Vandervere
Frank Orth	...	Sherman - Shooting Gallery Owner

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Argentina:Atp | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | Norway:A | Australia:G | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | UK:U | USA:Approved (certificate #9533)

Filming Locations:

Crow Indian Reservation, Montana, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

Early production charts had Vincent Price in the role of "Murdo Carvell," but he was replaced by Frank Fenton when the role was severely cut. Many of the uncredited cast had more lines and screen time than Fenton, who was credited on screen.

Quotes:

Yellow Hand: Men of the Nation. There's a black cloud coming from the east to cover us all. We, the Cheyenne, have called our brothers of the Sioux so we can hear the words about this thing. Yesterday, the buffalo was many as the blades of grass upon the prairie...

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Biography: Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel" (1999)

Soundtrack:

Hail to the Chief

Factual Errors

I enjoyed watching the film "Buffalo Bill." Unfortunately close blood relations of Buffalo Bill were still living at that time, and they should have made an effort not to make errors.

Louisa Frederici met Cody in Saint Louis, and served out the end of the war there planning on making her his bride. They were married in her father's home (John Frederici) on South 8th Street in Saint Louis. They left right away for a steamboat to Kansas. Her father did not go along, and was NOT a Senator.

It is a fine film, and entertaining. When Bill Cody returned to the West in 1866 he was married! There was no Linda Darnell's character. Just once I would like for Hollywood to do an exact biography without changing the facts!

I am a Frederici descendant. Terry Alan Klasek Saint Louis, Missouri