Fresh
It's a sometimes self-indulgent, confused, ambitious movie that is often very funny and always fascinating.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
The greatest buffaloer of them all!
1976 · 2h 3m · PG
Comedy, Western
Directed by
Robert Altman
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.
Director and cast
- Robert Altman Director
- Paul Newman as The Star (William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody)
- Joel Grey as The Producer (Nate Salisbury)
- Harvey Keitel as The Relative (Ed Goodman)
- Kevin McCarthy as The Publicist (Maj. John Burke)
- Allan F. Nicholls as The Journalist (Prentiss Ingraham) (as Allan Nicholls)
- Geraldine Chaplin as The Sure Shot (Annie Oakley)
- John Considine as The Sure Shot's Manager (Frank Butler)
- Robert DoQui as The Wrangler (Oswald Dart)
- Mike Kaplan as The Treasurer (Jules Keen)
- Pat McCormick as The President of the United States (Grover Cleveland)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
82%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Aspires to a cynical Brechtian snappiness, but the drama is too thinly imagined, the meanings too familiar and heavily stated, for this 1976 film to gather any real interest.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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