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Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickock work to establish the Pony Express and fight Indians and California Separatists who seek to destroy it.Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickock work to establish the Pony Express and fight Indians and California Separatists who seek to destroy it.Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickock work to establish the Pony Express and fight Indians and California Separatists who seek to destroy it.
Eric Alden
- Miller
- (uncredited)
George Bell
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Nick Borgani
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Ewing Miles Brown
- Sacramento Express Agent
- (uncredited)
Jim Burk
- Pony Express Rider
- (uncredited)
James Davies
- Cassidy
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe real (Buffalo Bill Cody) was only 14 when the Pony Express was established.
- GoofsThe setting of the film is the beginning of the Pony Express, which ran from 1860 to 1861. Yet the Californian secessionists who try to stop the Pony Express's first-ever delivery use dynamite, which was not invented until 1867.
- Quotes
Wild Bill Hickok: Listen, Shorty. You follow the redhead and I'll marry you.
Denny Russell: Easy for you to say. You don't like women.
Wild Bill Hickok: That's right. Maybe that's why I'm so fond of you.
Denny Russell: Thanks. Go shoot yourself.
- ConnectionsFeatured in America at the Movies (1976)
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Saved by Jan Sterling
Rhonda Fleming and Jan Sterling seem an unlikely pair but here they are cast in this mythical Western. I say mythical not as a compliment, but it must have got audiences in to see Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill and Forrest Tucker as Wild Bill Hickok. Both are adequate in the roles but the great ( yes, great and underrated actress ) Jan Sterling does her very best to save this mediocre film. Not as conventionally beautiful as Fleming she takes the actor honours here while Rhonda Fleming lets her. Fleming was utterly wasted in most films, but it is Jan Sterling who overcomes the waste of her talent by sheer force of presence. She has short hair and dresses like a man, and does not succumb to a dress until the approaching end. Surviving in an awful pink dress she looks ridiculous, but like a really committed actor she ignores the change. She could do anything. The cameo role in ' The High and the Mighty ' is an example of standing out above the rest, including Claire Trevor. Watch it and do not care about the plot as it is barely worth describing. But there are lots of Buffalos, lots of ' bad ' Native Americans and of course phallic gunplay between Heston and Tucker. All that was needed in 1953 for the adolescent mind.
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- Gross US & Canada
- $1,400,000
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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