Buffalo Bill (1944 film)

1944 film by William A. Wellman

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Buffalo Bill

Directed by| William A. Wellman
Written by| Aeneas MacKenzie
Clements Ripley
Cecile Kramer
Frank Winch (story)
John Larkin (uncredited)
Produced by| Harry Sherman
Darryl F. Zanuck
Starring| Joel McCrea
Maureen O'Hara
Linda Darnell
Thomas Mitchell
Cinematography| Leon Shamroy
Edited by| James B. Clark
Music by| David Buttolph
Color process| Technicolor

Production
company

20th Century Fox

Distributed by| 20th Century Fox

Release date

* April 1944 (1944-04)

Running time

| 90 minutes
Country| United States
Language| English
Box office| $2 million[1]

Buffalo Bill is a 1944 American Western film about the life of the 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[edit]

A fictionalized account of the life of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, a hunter and Army Scout who rescues a US Senator and his beautiful daughter, Louisa Frederici; 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, 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.[2]

## Cast[edit]

* 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
* Arthur Aylesworth as Pool Player (uncredited)
* Evelyn Beresford as Queen Victoria (uncredited)
* Sidney Blackmer as Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
* John Dilson as President Rutherford B. Hayes (uncredited)
* Robert Homans as Policeman Muldoon (uncredited)
* Chief Many Treaties as Chief Tall Bull (uncredited)
* Chief Thundercloud as Crazy Horse (uncredited)

## Production[edit]

Parts of the film were shot in Johnson Canyon and Paria, Utah.[3]: 287

## See also[edit]

* List of American films of 1944

## References[edit]

1. ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 220
2. ^ "Buffalo Bill (1944)". The American Film Institute. Retrieved January 26, 2019.
3. ^ 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[edit]

* Buffalo Bill at IMDb
* Buffalo Bill at the TCM Movie Database
* Buffalo Bill at AllMovie

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Films directed by William A. Wellman

* Second Hand Love (1923)
* The Man Who Won (1923)
* Big Dan (1923)
* Cupid's Fireman (1923)
* Not a Drum Was Heard (1924)
* The Vagabond Trail (1924)
* The Circus Cowboy (1924)
* When Husbands Flirt (1925)
* The Boob (1926)
* You Never Know Women (1926)
* The Cat's Pajamas (1926)
* Wings (1927)
* The Legion of the Condemned (1928)
* Ladies of the Mob (1928)
* Beggars of Life (1928)
* Chinatown Nights (1929)
* The Man I Love (1929)
* Woman Trap (1929)
* Dangerous Paradise (1930)
* Young Eagles (1930)
* Maybe It's Love (1930)
* Other Men's Women (1931)
* The Public Enemy (1931)
* Night Nurse (1931)
* The Star Witness (1931)
* Safe in Hell (1931)
* The Hatchet Man (1932)
* So Big (1932)
* Love Is a Racket (1932)
* The Purchase Price (1932)
* The Conquerors (1932)
* Frisco Jenny (1932)
* Central Airport (1933)
* Lilly Turner (1933)
* Heroes for Sale (1933)
* Midnight Mary (1933)
* Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
* Female (1933)
* College Coach (1933)
* Looking for Trouble (1934)
* Stingaree (1934)
* The President Vanishes (1934)
* Call of the Wild (1935)
* Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936)
* Small Town Girl (1936)
* A Star Is Born (1937)
* Nothing Sacred (1937)
* Men with Wings (1938)
* Beau Geste (1939)
* The Light That Failed (1939)
* Reaching for the Sun (1941)
* Roxie Hart (1942)
* The Great Man's Lady (1942)
* Thunder Birds (1942)
* Lady of Burlesque (1943)
* The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
* Buffalo Bill (1944)
* This Man's Navy (1945)
* The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
* Gallant Journey (1946)
* Magic Town (1947)
* The Iron Curtain (1948)
* Yellow Sky (1948)
* Battleground (1949)
* The Next Voice You Hear...  (1950)
* The Happy Years (1950)
* Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
* It's a Big Country (1951)
* Westward the Women (1951)
* My Man and I (1952)
* Island in the Sky (1953)
* The High and the Mighty (1954)
* Track of the Cat (1954)
* Ring of Fear (1954)
* Blood Alley (1955)
* Good-bye, My Lady (1956)
* Darby's Rangers (1958)
* Lafayette Escadrille (1958)

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