The Plainsman (1936)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.9/10   

Director:

Cecil B. DeMille

Escritores:

Courtney Ryley Cooper (story)
Frank J. Wilstach (story)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

16 noviembre 1936 (USA)

Género:

Biografía | Historia | Romance | Guerra | Del Oeste

Frase comercial:

Cecile B. DeMille brings you Gary and Jean in their grandest picture...the story of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, the hardest boiled pair of lovers who ever rode the plains...a glorious romance set against the whole flaming pageant of the Old West...

Plot:

Wild Bill Hickok attempts to stop an Indian uprising that was started by white gun-runners.

Plot Keywords:

Rifle | Wild Bill Hickok | Buffalo | Repeating Rifle | Calamity Jane

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Why bother with research

Reparto

Gary Cooper	...	Wild Bill Hickok
Jean Arthur	...	Calamity Jane
James Ellison	...	William "Buffalo Bill" Cody
Charles Bickford	...	John Lattimer
Helen Burgess	...	Louisa Cody
Porter Hall	...	Jack McCall
Paul Harvey	...	Yellow Hand
Victor Varconi	...	Painted Horse
John Miljan	...	Gen. George A. Custer
Frank McGlynn Sr.	...	Abraham Lincoln
Granville Bates	...	Van Ellyn
Frank Albertson	...	Young trooper
Purnell Pratt	...	Capt. Wood
Fred Kohler	...	Jake (teamster) (as Fred Kohler Sr.)
Pat Moriarity	...	Sgt. McGinnis (as Pat Moriarty)

También conocida como:

Buffalo Bill (Spain) [es]
El llanero (Argentina) [es]

Duración:

113 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Clasificación:

UK:U | Norway:16 | Australia:PG | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #2597)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Birney, Montana, USA

Compañía:

Paramount Pictures

Trivialidades:

Paramount executives wanted Wild Bill Hickok to survive the card-game shootout, but Cecil B. DeMille resisted and got his way.

Errores:

Errores Reales: On the evening of Lincoln's assassination Van Ellyn and his associates are discussing the supposedly then current John Soule editorial, "Go West, Young Man." Lincoln was murdered in 1865. Soule wrote that famous line in 1851.

Citas:

Van Ellyn associate: But we can't sell rifles to the Indians!
Van Ellyn: I think we can... to peaceable Indians.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (2004) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

(I Wish I Was in) Dixie's Land

Why bother with research

I still have the copy my parents gave me of Cecil B. DeMille's autobiography and he does go into some detail about the research done for his films. I'm wondering if Paramount decided to save money on the research for this one.

The action of this film takes place from the end of the Civil War until Wild Bill Hickok is shot dead in Deadwood which was 1876. Now that's eleven years that if you took this film literally is compressed to about three months. I found that a wee bit too much to swallow.

But DeMille knew how to fill the screen with some slam bang entertainment. The battle with the Cheyenne Indians is exciting, almost an early version of 3-D. I'm suspecting a lot is lost by only seeing it on television.

Gary Cooper is at his laconic yup and nope best, Jean Arthur is a fine Calamity Jane. The rest of the cast does well also. One tragic note is that Helen Burgess who plays the bride of Buffalo Bill died shortly after completing this film at the age of 19. I think a wonderful career was cut short.

Good entertainment, but any resemblance to western history is purely coincidental.