dir: Robert Altman
BUFFALO BULL AND THE INDIANS
Sick #113, December 1976
a: John Reiner
The movie begins with Ned Buntline (Burt Lancaster) telling how Buffalo Bill was his creation.
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BUFFALO BULL AND THE INDIANS
BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS, OR SITTING BULL'S HISTORY LESSON (1976)
dir: Robert Altman
BUFFALO BULL AND THE INDIANS
Sick #113, December 1976
a: John Reiner
Altman, one of the most prolific directors of the seventies, had a streak of hits, but this wasn't one of them. It involves how Buffalo Bill Cody (Paul Newman) cashed in on his status as a Western hero, putting on shows nationwide and exaggerating his legacy. He brings in Indian legend Sitting Bull, who schools him on his accuracy.
The movie begins with Ned Buntline (Burt Lancaster) telling how Buffalo Bill was his creation.
Halsey (Will Sampson) is the interpreter for Sitting Bull (Frank Kaquitts). Buffalo Bill is seeing someone who I'm not sure even exists in the movie.
”Life is a cabaret”is a line from the actor Joel Grey's previous role. George Wallace was a segregationist politician used in any joke about bigotry in the seventies.
Sitting Bull gets to be too much to handle so Bill eventually fires him, until his main draw Annie Oakley (Geraldine Chaplin) threatens to leave in protest as well. Miss DuCharmes come to see the show. Bills actual girlfriend in the movie (Bonnie Leaders), makes an appearance.
Oakley's partner is accidentally shot but they continue pretending nothing happened because President Grover Cleveland (Pat McCormick) and his wife (Shelly Duvall) are in the audience.
Buntline tells Buffalo Bill he's the real talent behind the myth, and when he comes back he'll kill it. At least that's what I think his motive is. In Altman's films, some scenes take a few viewings to figure out exactly what's going on.
dir: Robert Altman
BUFFALO BULL AND THE INDIANS
Sick #113, December 1976
a: John Reiner
The movie begins with Ned Buntline (Burt Lancaster) telling how Buffalo Bill was his creation.
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In the splash, I would assume the picture of Lillie Langtry is there because she was a character in a previous Paul Newman film, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean. But there she was played by Ava Gardner, and the drawing looks nothing like her. It looks a little more like the real Langtry, but that's not saying much.
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