The white buffalo

Movie
German title	The white buffalo
Original title	The White Buffalo
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1977
length	97 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	J. Lee Thompson
script	Richard Sale
production	Dino De Laurentiis
music	John Barry
camera	Paul Lohmann
cut	Michael F. Anderson
occupation
Charles Bronson : Wild Bill Hickok / James Otis Jack Warden : Charlie Zane Will Sampson : Crazy Horse / Wurm Kim Novak : Poker Jenny Schermerhorn Clint Walker : Jack Kileen John Carradine : Gibbs Stuart Whitman : Coxy Slim Pickens : Abel Pinkney Douglas Fowley : Amos Bixby Cara Williams : Cassie Ollinger Shay Duffin : Tim Brady Ed Lauter : Captain Tom Custer

The White Buffalo (original title: The White Buffalo ) is an American western from 1977, which was directed by J. Lee Thompson . Screenwriter Richard Sale also wrote the novel of the same name published two years earlier. Charles Bronson , Jack Warden and Will Sampson play the leading roles .

action

The action takes place towards the end of 1874. The aging trapper and legendary gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok is plagued by recurring nightmares in which he is attacked by a white buffalo. When he learns that another specimen is causing fear and terror in the Black Hills, he decides to hunt the monster in order to finally regain his inner peace.

He travels under the name of James Otis , but is recognized by ancient enemies, which leads to several shootings. From Poker Jenny, a former lover, he learns that the buffalo has destroyed an Indian village. Together with his partner, the veteran Charlie Zane, Bill goes to the Sioux area, where the duo is joined by the lonely Indian Crazy Horse. This one only calls itself a worm since the white buffalo trampled its little daughter to death. For this reason, Crazy Horse has to settle a score with the beast itself. In the end, the Indian chief and Westerner kill the last white buffalo together.

background

• The film was shot primarily in Colorado , but also in Los Angeles and New Mexico .
• Charles Bronson often wears dark sunglasses in the film, which is historically correct insofar as James Butler Hickok, played by him, was diagnosed with glaucoma in 1876 (the buffalo episode is pure fiction, of course).
• Dino De Laurentiis produced the film . In the mid-1970s, he produced other films about wild beasts, including Orca, the killer whale .
• This was the penultimate western Bronson appeared in (only A Man Becomes a Beast of 1981).

Reviews

"A moderately exciting monster film in the wake of" Jaws "and" King Kong ", which at most has the scenery and the costumes in common with a western. The psychedelic nonsense is sometimes involuntarily comical. "

- Lexicon of international film

"Inspired by" Jaws "and" Moby Dick ", this hybrid is convincing neither as a surreal allegory nor as an action spectacle, but it has its moments. Conclusion: adventure between mysticism and botch. "

- Cinema

Web links

• The White Buffalo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The White Buffalo at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
• The white buffalo in the online film database
• The white buffalo in the German dubbing index

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for The White Buffalo . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2011 (PDF; test number: 49 070 V).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Trivia
3. ↑ Filming Locations
4. ↑ The white buffalo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 30, 2018 .  
5. ↑ The White Buffalo (1977). In: Cinema . Archived from the original on April 23, 2016 ; accessed on September 30, 2018 .  For the current page with a review that does not contain the quoted sentences, see: The White Buffalo. In: Cinema . Hubert Burda Media , accessed on September 30, 2018 .