The Plainsman

Average Western , being uneven , regulary directed and full of figures from history , along with the North American Indian upheavals . This ordinary western contains a story full of adventure , up and downs pace , thrills and so-so direction .This is a mighty adventure when America's destiny rode in the saddle bags of the US cavalry from Fort Hays . Dealing with the heroic courage of two men and a woman that will set your blood tingling and with the grandest love story ever told . With the end of the American Civil War, the manufacturers of repeating rifles find a profitable means of making money selling the arms to Cheyennes by smuggling . As Bill Hickok attempts to stop an Indian uprising that was started by white gun-runners . Bill Hickock (Don Murray) , a tomboy Calamity Jane (Abby Dalton) and a serious Buffalo Bill (Guy Stockwell) team up for brave feats in this empty , simple venture . Later on , Calamity Jane is driving a stagecoach and across the desert she meets Will Bill .Then , the girl is kidnapped by Cheyennes (Henry Silva , Simon Oakland) and Bill attempts to free her ; of course , both of whom fall in love again . There emerges a feeling love of an impetuous girl for a strong man who couldn't speak his heart . Along the way they must battle hostile Indians and outlaws who intent on gunrunning . As the film happens in an on-again, off-again romance between Will Bill and Calamity Jane .When the land needed law... When the West needed taming... When adventure needed a giant... They sent for the Plainsman!

This breeze-fresh movie filled with get-up-and-go , noisy action , go riding , shootouts , Indian assaults and fun . A little too self-consciously mini-epic and much too reliant on historical roles and back-projection, but still a colorful though regular western which rambles through the familar parade of epic characters , Cheyennes and their uprisings , gun-runners , and other baddies . Badly telescoped to get them all in , including a brief acting from Leslie Nielsen as heroic General Custer . However , it results to be a very mediocre and ordinary Western . It's a thrilling western with spectacular outdoors and breathtaking confrontation among badly-dressed Indians and cavalry soldiers . Acceptable action sequences with rousing Indian attacks against a surrounded detachment on a ridge and little realistic shootouts . Guy Stockwell's passable , and silly portrayal of Will Bill/Don Murray lumbered with a skittishly , romantic as well as irritating Calamity Jane . Abby Dalton stars as the gun-toting , rip-snorting Calamity Jane of Western lore , but overacting , she gives a funny portrayal of the famous frontier wilcat and she certainly puts full of fire and mirth into the role . As Calamity seems to come from another , altogether less trivial film . They are well accompanied by a pretty good support cast , such as Bradford Dillman , Henry Silva , Simon Oakland ,Leslie Nielsen as Col. George Armstrong Custer , Terry Wilson , Walter Burke and Percy Rodrigues . Special mention for the enjoyable musical score for the great master and incombustible John Williams in one of his first works . This plain and simple western movie was regular though professionally made . Just about what you'd expect from splashy director David Lowell Rich .

Other films about Will Bill Hickcok , Calamity and Buffalo Bill are : first version ¨The plainsman¨ 1937 with Gary Cooper , Jean Arthur , James Ellison , Charles Bickford , Anthony Quinn , james Mason , being filmed on the tremendous scale only Cecil B DeMille could achieve ; ¨Calamity Jane and Sam Bass¨ 1949 by George Sherman with Yvonne De Carlo , Howard Duff ; ¨Calamity Jane¨1982 by James Goldstone with Jane Alexander , Frederic Forrest ; ¨Wild Bill¨1995 by Walter Hill with Jeff Bridges , Ellen Barkin ; ¨Seven hours of gunfire¨ by Joaquin Romero with Gloria Milland , Rik Van Nutter , Adrian Hoven .

Although the events are fictious , the picture is partially based on relationships among Calamity Jane , Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill . The real happenings are the following ones : At the beginning , 1858 , Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickock work to establish the Pony Express join forces to establish a mail route that can get mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, as well they fight Indians and enemies who seek to destroy it . While Martha Jane Canary or Cannary (May 1, 1852 - August 1, 1903), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman and professional scout known for being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok and fighting against Indians. Late in her life, she appeared in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. She is said to have exhibited compassion to others, especially to the sick and needy. This facet of her character contrasted with her daredevil ways and helped to make her a noted frontier figure .She was also known for her habit of wearing men's attire.Much of what she claimed to have witnessed and participated in cannot be proven. It is known that she had no formal education and was an itinerant alcoholic.. In 1876, Calamity Jane settled in the area of Deadwood, South Dakota in the Black Hills . There she became friends with Dora DuFran, the Black Hills' leading madam, and she was occasionally employed by her. She also became friendly with Wild Bill Hickok and Charlie Utter, having traveled with them to Deadwood in Utter's wagon train.Calamity Jane does seem to have had two daughters, although the father's identity is unknown. In the late 1880s, she returned to Deadwood with a child whom she claimed to be her daughter.Jane also claimed that, following Hickok's death, she went after his murderer Jack McCall with a meat cleaver, since she had left her guns at her residence in the excitement of the moment. Rating : 4.5/10 . Average Western