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The greatest buffaloer of them all!

Overview

Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Paul Newman

    The Star (William F. Cody)

  2. Cast 1

    Joel Grey

    The Producer (Nate Salisbury)

  3. Cast 1

    Kevin McCarthy

    The Publicist (Maj. John Burke)

  4. Cast 1

    Harvey Keitel

    The Relative (Ed Goodman)

  5. Cast 1

    Allan F. Nicholls

    The Journalist (Prentiss Ingraham)

  6. Cast 1

    Geraldine Chaplin

    The Sure Shot (Annie Oakley)

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    John Considine

    The Sure Shot's Manager (Frank Butler)

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    Robert DoQui

    The Wrangler (Oswald Dart)

  9. Mike Kaplan

    The Treasurer (Jules Keen)

_**Tedious arty Western; thoroughly UNentertaining**_ Released in 1976 and directed by Robert Altman, "Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson" stars Paul Newman as Buffalo Bill Cody, the star of his famous "Wild West Show" in the shadow of the Rockies in 1885. After Chief Sitting Bull of Little Big Horn fame (Frank Kaquitts) arrives with his Number One (Will Sampson), Cody is irked that the chief isn't a slaughtering savage, but is silently heroic and honorable. Cody fires him, but relents when star attraction Annie Oakley (Geraldine Chaplin) sympathizes with Sitting...