Buffalo Bill
Scout William F. Cody marries a U.S. senator's daughter, fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.
Critics Sentiment
Buffalo Bill fights Yellow Hand at Warbonnet Creek
Buffalo Bill loses his young son to illness
The film peaks with the spectacular Warbonnet Creek battle sequence then crashes into the slower Eastern society storyline, dropping from 8.5 to 4.8.
Buffalo Bill starts promisingly with frontier adventure and romance, building to a spectacular battle sequence that reviewers universally praised. However, the film loses significant momentum in its final act, with critics finding the Eastern society and showbiz elements meandering and less compelling than the earlier action-packed Western sequences.
Full cast
Joel McCrea
William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
Maureen O'Hara
Louisa Frederici
Linda Darnell
Dawn Starlight
Thomas Mitchell
Ned Buntline
Edgar Buchanan
Sgt. Chips McGraw
Anthony Quinn
Chief Yellow Hand
Moroni Olsen
Sen. Frederici
Frank Fenton
Murdo Carvell
Matt Briggs
General Blazier
George Lessey
Mr. Schyler Vandervere
Sidney Blackmer
Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
Evelyn Beresford
Queen Victoria (uncredited)
Crew
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