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Director:
Jerry Hopper
Writers:
Frank Gruber (story)
Charles Marquis Warren (writer)
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Release Date:
18 January 1954 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Western more
Tagline:
GALLOPING THRILLS! A mighty adventure when America's destiny rode in the saddle bags of the...PONY EXPRESS more
Plot:
Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish a mail route that can get mail from St. Joseph... more | add synopsis
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Pony express was a great thing but the movie wasn't. more (6 total)

Cast

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Charlton Heston ... Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

Rhonda Fleming ... Evelyn Hastings
Jan Sterling ... Denny Russell
Forrest Tucker ... Wild Bill Hickok
Michael Moore ... Rance Hastings
Porter Hall ... Jim Bridger
Richard Shannon ... Red Barrett
Henry Brandon ... Joe Cooper, Owner Overland Express Co.
Stuart Randall ... Pemberton, (editor, 'California Weekly Bulletin')
Lewis Martin ... Sergeant Russell
Pat Hogan ... Chief Yellow Hand
Eric Alden ... Miller - the Clerk
Howard Joslin ... Harvey
Leroy Johnson ... Pony Express Rider
Jim Burk ... Pony Express Rider (as Jimmy H. Burk)
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Runtime:
101 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
West Germany:12 | Finland:K-7 (new rating: 2001) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-8 | USA:Approved (PCA #16104) | Sweden:Btl
Filming Locations:
Johnson Canyon, Kanab, Utah, USA more
Company:
Paramount Pictures more

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Remake of The Pony Express (1925) more

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Pony express was a great thing but the movie wasn't., 29 December 2001
Author: dbdumonteil

Charles Marquis Warren is one of the worst western scriptwriters.Responsible(also for directing it) for the very mediocre -and a bit racist- "Arrowshead"-which featured Heston as well,he wrote an even more dreadful story here.Will Cody must be turning in his grave! The story is incoherent,every sequence seems to be the beginning of the film,there's the de rigueur (check "Arrowshead") Heston/Indian fight,and Jan Sterling's part is so thin it's a wonder she can do something with it(This actress found her best role in Wilder's masterpiece "the big carnival").Only the last sequences of the mail might redeem that,but the "writer" wanted a "moving" ending so he spoils everything .

You'll always be better off with Cecil B.De Mille's "the plainsman"(1936)with Gary Cooper ,Jean Arthur and James Ellison,as far as Buffalo Bill is concerned.Hickock 's character is also featured,and on top of that ,Calamity Jane in the flesh.

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