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The Plainsman is a 1936 American Western film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring and . The film presents a highly fictionalized account of the adventures and relationships between Wild Bill Hickok, , Buffalo Bill Cody, and General George Custer, with a gun-runner named Lattimer () as the main villain. The film is notorious for mixing timelines and even has an opening scene with setting the stage for Hickok's adventures. has an early acting role as an Indian. A remake using the same title was released in 1966.


Plot
With the end of the American Civil War, military industrialists are left with an oversupply of weapons. Some of the more unscrupulous ones view the Indians as possible new customers.

Wild Bill Hickok has just been discharged from the and is making his way back west. On a , he bumps into his old army scout colleague, Buffalo Bill Cody and his new bride. Later, their mutual friend is the driver of their stagecoach to Hays City, Kansas.

John Lattimer, an agent for unscrupulous gun makers, has supplied the with , which enable them to kill half of the troopers at a United States Cavalry outpost. Hickok discovers the rifles and reports it to General George Armstrong Custer. Custer sends out an ammunition train to the fort with Cody as guide. Hickok tries to locate Yellow Hand, the leader of the Cheyenne, to find out why the Indians have gone to war.

When Calamity is captured by the Indians, Hickok tries to bargain for her release, but is taken to Yellow Hand (as he had hoped). Yellow Hand states that the Indians are fighting because the white man has starting settling land promised to the Indian and is killing off the . Yellow Hand promises to release his captives if they tell him the route of the ammunition train. After much prodding from Calamity, Hickok professes his love for her just before he is about to be burned alive. Calamity then discloses the route in order to save Hickok. Yellow Hand holds true to his word by releasing his two prisoners.

The Indians ambush the ammunition train. Hickok sends Jane to get help while he fights alongside the besieged soldiers. After a desperate six-day siege on a river bank, the survivors are saved when Custer arrives with the cavalry.

Back in town, Hickok catches up with Lattimer and tells him to get ready for a gun duel. Lattimer sends three cavalry in his place. Hickok kills all three in the gunfight, but this makes him a from the law. Hickok flees to the . Calamity leaves for Deadwood separately when the townspeople find out what she had done.

Custer sends Cody after Hickok. After meeting in the woods, the two friends capture an Indian and learn that Custer has been killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and that the Cheyenne are moving to join the in the . They also learn that Lattimer is sending more to the Indians, to be picked up in Deadwood. Instead of arresting his friend, Cody rides off to warn the cavalry, while Hickok goes to Deadwood to deal with Lattimer. Hickok kills Lattimer and detains Lattimer's henchmen for arrest by the cavalry, but is shot in the back by Lattimer's informant, Jack McCall, while he is playing poker with the henchmen to pass the time. A heart-broken Calamity Jane cradles Hickok's body.


Cast

Cavalry soldier extras and unit horses were period costumed members of the 115th Cavalry, Wyoming National guard which was still a horse cavalry unit from 1922 to 1941.


Production
Parts of the film were shot in Canyon, Kanab movie fort, and Paria, Utah.
(2025). 9781423605874, Gibbs Smith.


Release
The film was initially banned in , but Paramount requested the ban to be lifted in October 1937, and the censorship office lifted the ban in March 1940.


Reception and accolades
Writing for in 1937, gave the film a rave review, suggesting that "perhaps it is the finest Western in the history of film". Greene praises de Mille's direction for his "magnificent handling of the extras in the big sets" as well "the firm handling of the individual drama". He also describes his pleasure in the acting of Cooper and Bickford as well as the "unexpected trace of sophistication" in Antheil's soundtrack for the film. (reprinted in:
(1980). 9780192812865, Oxford University Press. .
)

It was nominated for the American Film Institute's 2008 AFI's 10 Top 10 in the Western film category.


See also
  • List of films and television shows about the American Civil War


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