bellino-angelo2014 Charles Bronson stars as Wild Bill Hickock, and here suffers from nightmares of a giant white buffalo that charges him. So he wants to kill the giant buffalo for real! Then he travels with his friend (Jack Warden) and stops in various towns (meeting also an old flame), and even teams with Indian Crazy Horse, who is also his blood brother. The three men finally challenge the white buffalo for real and kill him.This Western is highly underrated, but it contains some surprises for movie buffs: is directed by J. Lee Thompson, and it stars also Kim Novak as Bronson's ex girlfriend, Will Sampson as Crazy Horse, John Carradine as a caretaker, Stuart Whitman as a unfortunate pickpocket, and Clint Walker (who passed away last week at age 90) as a famed outlaw. And even the soundtrack is nice.Recommended only to die-hard Western fans. And Jack Warden here is a hoot!

skiptaggart The dialogue is wildly authentic. But the mechanical buffalo shows his real tracks during the final confrontation when you can briefly see the actual tracks it's riding on during its charge through the pines. Hard to believe that got past the editing process

PeterMitchell-506-564364 A richly shot, old fashion western, a far cry from a lot of Charlie's avenging cop flicks, ala Golan Globus. Surprisingly this exciting, and well shot period adventure is directed by J Lee Thompson, a favorite with Charles. In this he forms an alliance with a bitter enemy, Wild Bill Hickok, in taking down this magnificent beast, the White Buffalo, who's only appeared in Charlie's dreams. In one breathtaking sequence we see this ranting beast charge through a village, no blood spared either. This is a great vehicle for Charles, rather than the norm of vengeance movies, that become so stereotypical of this acting great, we become thankful of this change, but still remains is this never changing tough guy personal, that made this actor a legend. The surroundings in which this solid actioner piece is shot, I loved. It very much reminded me, as if being on the same set of Daniel Boone. I loved seeing Charlie pitted up against this beast, and the unlikely, if inevitable friendship formed between these two once bitter enemies. After all, isn't there enough hate in the world.

LeonLouisRicci Eerie, offbeat, weird Western full of gun-play and word-play a plenty. A seldom seen or talked about 70's Western that is one of the decade's best. A sharp-tongued, sassy, colorful and quirky script with home-spun witticism and almost every line is earthy poetry. After a prostitute is killed..."this scarlet sister walks the streets in Heaven". An old-timer is told..."you been known to puddle your pants at the sound of a Cherokee war whoop", and the fun never stops.It is filled with those kind of salty sayings and back-boned with a mythological movie that is peppered with people that all have nicknames like Poker Annie and Whistling Smith. It's a dreamlike atmosphere and everything has a synonym. A telescope is a peeper, a buffalo is a spike, and there is a thing called "true truths".The nightmare that haunts Wild Bill Hickok is that of a monstrous white buffalo and when he finally meets his nemesis the film does seem anti-climactic. But this is such a strange setting of echoing mountains and boom-town bizarreness where buffalo bones are stacked to the rooftops in a pile that stretches forever, that the whole tall tale seems like something out of classic literature and not Pulp Westerns.A surreal sleeper.