Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West (1964)
장르 : 서부
상영시간 : 1시간 34분
연출 : Mario Costa
각본 : Nino Stresa, Luciano Martino
시놉시스
Colonel William Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, intends to put an end to the dishonest relations between a gang of white swindlers and the Indian, Yellow Hand. So he goes to the chief of Yellow Hand's tribe, Wise Fox, and tries to convince him to sign a peace treaty with the Federal troops. In order to avoid this, Yellow Hand abducts Wise Fox's daughter, pretending that the soldiers have done it.
Calamity Jane tries to help Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock stop an Indian war.
Story concerns the efforts of Buffalo Bill to protect the Indian's land from a gang who want to get the gold buried there. The outlaws disguise themselves as Indians and raid and plunder the settlers in order to blame the tribe.
Produced by Jack Schwartz for low-budget company Screen Guild, this mild Western starring the veteran Richard Arlen was apparently the first entry in a proposed series. Arlen played the title role, here assigned by the army to quell an Indian attack on the powerless settlers. The Indians are accusing Tom Russell (John Dexter) of murdering a member of the tribe, an act, as Buffalo Bill discovers, actually committed by a gang of outlaws hired by investment company owner J.B. Jordon (Frank O'Connor). Buffalo Bill Rides Again was soundly defeated by a low budget and slipshod direction by the veteran Bernard B. Ray. Popular B-Western villain Ted Adams disappeared mysteriously halfway through the film, only to be replaced by Edmund Cobb. Jennifer Holt, the daughter of Arlen contemporary Jack Holt and by far the busiest B-Western heroine of the 1940s, had little to do other than letting herself be kidnapped by evil Gil Patric.
Columbia Pictures elevated a run-of-the-mill B-western supporting player, Marshall Reed, to the title role in this equally run-of-the-mill western serial released in 15 chapters. Like most serials in the '50s, Riding with Buffalo Bill consisted of quite a bit of budget-stretching stock footage telling a highly fictionalized account of Buffalo Bill Cody aiding a group of ranchers in their defeat of a local crime lord. The serial's assistant director, Leonard Katzman, later produced the long-running television series Gunsmoke and Dallas.
과대 망상증에 걸린 버팔로 빌 코디는 작가 네드 버트라인이 쓰고 연출자 네이트 세일즈베리가 끼어 맞춘 얘기로 자신의 "웨스턴 쇼"를 만들어낸다. 이 쇼에서는 백인들이 미개한 인디언들보다 우세하다는 걸 보여주면서 관객들이 자신을 존경하고 자신이 만든 상품을 구매하도록 만드는 전략을 세운다. 하지만 시팅 불이 이 쇼에 참여하면서 쇼는 거짓뿐이고 진실만이 관객을 사로잡을 수 있다고 그를 설득하려고 한다. 하지만 진실이 어떻든 간에 관객들을 기쁘게 하고 자신의 사리사욕만 채우면 다라고 생각한 버팔로 빌 코디는 이 말을 전혀 귀담아듣지 않는다. 그러던 중 인디언이라고 무시했던 시팅 불의 진면목을 보게 되면서 실망을 하게 되는데.
남북 전쟁 직후 존라티머가 인디언들에게 총을 밀매하려 하면서 이야기가 시작된다. 이를 막기 위해 서부 개척자의 정의로운 사내 대장부인 빌 힉콕과 그의 친구 버팔로 빌 코디는 그를 쫓는다. 시끄러운 칼라미티 제인은 빌 힉콕을 사랑하지만, 빌은 그런 그녀를 피하고만 싶다. 그는 여자나 가정 그리고 결혼에 대한 생각보다 자유로운 생활이 아직 더 좋다. 빌은 인디언들과 평화롭게 지내려 했으나 칼라미티가 인디언들에게 붙잡히자 마음을 바꾼다. 그녀를 구하려 가다가 빌 힉콕 자신이 붙잡히게 되고 칼라미티가 그를 구한다. 결국 빌은 라티머를 처라하지만, 다른 사람에게 죽음을 당한다.
Awkward Annie (Barbara Stanwyck) loves her sharpshooting rival (Preston Foster) in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish a mail route that can get mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, in ten days. Along the way they must battle bad weather, hostile Indians and outlaws intent on robbing the mail and shutting down the entire operation.
Scout William F. Cody (Joel McCrea) marries a U.S. senator's daughter (Maureen O'Hara), fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.
When the young Texas Ranger, John Reid, is the sole survivor of an ambush arranged by the militaristic outlaw leader, Butch Cavendich, he is rescued by an old childhood Comanche friend, Tonto. When he recovers from his wounds, he dedicates his life to fighting the evil that Cavendich represents. To this end, John Reid becomes the great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger. With the help of Tonto, the pair go to rescue President Grant when Cavendich takes him hostage.
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
It's 1860 and the old Spanish land grants are being surveyed. Montez is after part of Don Regas' rancho and gets the surveyor to alter the boundary. But Don Regas still has the original grant written on a bandanna. Montez sends Indians after it but Bill Cody and Gabby fight them off and a wounded Gabby unknowingly ends up with the missing million dollar deed wrapped around his arm for a bandage.
When he was 12 years old, Bill Cody, later knew as Buffalo Bill, is rider for "pony express" carrying the mail through the wilds of America. It becomes later caravans guide. When driving one of them meets Luisa, the niece of a priest who tried to evangelize the savage tribes accompanied by a converted Indian. It is a dangerous time because, before the advancing white man, the Sioux tribes are buying weapons from unscrupulous dealers...
In this short, a youthful Buffalo Bill Cody joins the newly-formed Pony Express as a station hand and replaces the regular rider when he is shot.
Western film serial featuring Buffalo Bill
