Calamity Jane tries to help Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock stop an Indian war.Calamity Jane tries to help Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock stop an Indian war.Calamity Jane tries to help Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock stop an Indian war.
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- Gambler
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- Townsman
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Calamity Jane: You see, men have got the whole world right in their punch. And you've got to show them that you are strong as they are. If you run after them they run away. And if you run away and try to get them to follow, honey they get tired mighty quick! If you are honest with them and you tell them what you think well then they get scared because they think that you see right through them. If you hold them the reins tight then they drop and escape. So maybe you're gentle and thought and you give them a little freedom. Then they think thay you don't care for them at all! If you kiss them they wipe it off or they wipe it in. Either way it's the same thing because they don't kiss back, and if they do it's not the right time or the right place or they are thinking of something else.
- ConnectionsRemake of The Plainsman (1936)
This breeze-fresh movie filled with get-up-and-go , noisy action , go riding , shootouts , Indian assaults and fun . A little too self-consciously mini-epic and much too reliant on historical roles and back-projection, but still a colorful though regular western which rambles through the familar parade of epic characters , Cheyennes and their uprisings , gun-runners , and other baddies . Badly telescoped to get them all in , including a brief acting from Leslie Nielsen as heroic General Custer . However , it results to be a very mediocre and ordinary Western . It's a thrilling western with spectacular outdoors and breathtaking confrontation among badly-dressed Indians and cavalry soldiers . Acceptable action sequences with rousing Indian attacks against a surrounded detachment on a ridge and little realistic shootouts . Guy Stockwell's passable , and silly portrayal of Will Bill/Don Murray lumbered with a skittishly , romantic as well as irritating Calamity Jane . Abby Dalton stars as the gun-toting , rip-snorting Calamity Jane of Western lore , but overacting , she gives a funny portrayal of the famous frontier wilcat and she certainly puts full of fire and mirth into the role . As Calamity seems to come from another , altogether less trivial film . They are well accompanied by a pretty good support cast , such as Bradford Dillman , Henry Silva , Simon Oakland ,Leslie Nielsen as Col. George Armstrong Custer , Terry Wilson , Walter Burke and Percy Rodrigues . Special mention for the enjoyable musical score for the great master and incombustible John Williams in one of his first works . This plain and simple western movie was regular though professionally made . Just about what you'd expect from splashy director David Lowell Rich .
Other films about Will Bill Hickcok , Calamity and Buffalo Bill are : first version ¨The plainsman¨ 1937 with Gary Cooper , Jean Arthur , James Ellison , Charles Bickford , Anthony Quinn , james Mason , being filmed on the tremendous scale only Cecil B DeMille could achieve ; ¨Calamity Jane and Sam Bass¨ 1949 by George Sherman with Yvonne De Carlo , Howard Duff ; ¨Calamity Jane¨1982 by James Goldstone with Jane Alexander , Frederic Forrest ; ¨Wild Bill¨1995 by Walter Hill with Jeff Bridges , Ellen Barkin ; ¨Seven hours of gunfire¨ by Joaquin Romero with Gloria Milland , Rik Van Nutter , Adrian Hoven .
Although the events are fictious , the picture is partially based on relationships among Calamity Jane , Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill . The real happenings are the following ones : At the beginning , 1858 , Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickock work to establish the Pony Express join forces to establish a mail route that can get mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, as well they fight Indians and enemies who seek to destroy it . While Martha Jane Canary or Cannary (May 1, 1852 - August 1, 1903), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman and professional scout known for being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok and fighting against Indians. Late in her life, she appeared in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. She is said to have exhibited compassion to others, especially to the sick and needy. This facet of her character contrasted with her daredevil ways and helped to make her a noted frontier figure .She was also known for her habit of wearing men's attire.Much of what she claimed to have witnessed and participated in cannot be proven. It is known that she had no formal education and was an itinerant alcoholic.. In 1876, Calamity Jane settled in the area of Deadwood, South Dakota in the Black Hills . There she became friends with Dora DuFran, the Black Hills' leading madam, and she was occasionally employed by her. She also became friendly with Wild Bill Hickok and Charlie Utter, having traveled with them to Deadwood in Utter's wagon train.Calamity Jane does seem to have had two daughters, although the father's identity is unknown. In the late 1880s, she returned to Deadwood with a child whom she claimed to be her daughter.Jane also claimed that, following Hickok's death, she went after his murderer Jack McCall with a meat cleaver, since she had left her guns at her residence in the excitement of the moment. Rating : 4.5/10 . Average Western
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- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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