| Show I Joel McCrea Maureen OHara O'Hara 1 Star in New Buffalo Bill B ll Movie By Erskine Johnson The HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD The forgotten 1 man nan in Hollywoods Hollywood's wild west Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo falo Bill is ridin to the screen I After all these years of glorifying the of the plains movie makers have finally got around 1 f t to the greatest hero of ot them allAnd all l And all in a million dollar technicolor tech tech- 4 1 i picture with Joel McCrea playing the great Indian fighter j 1 buffalo hunter and scout complete with long hair mustache and goatee Of Ot course Bills Bill's film biographers discreetly are ignoring his elbow- elbow bending activities and his domestic battles Joel plays the role Boy BoyScout BoyScout BoyScout Scout fashion Theres There's no mention mention mention men men- tion of that killing buffalo killing contest down Sh Sheridan county way in which Bill alternated at killing buffalo and magnums of cham cham- Or of his marital difficulties difficulties difficulties with Louisa Frederic Frederici the St Sl Louis girl he married Mrs Buffalo Bill as played by Maureen OHara O'Hara and pappy get along very nicely in the picture except for a a. mild threat of a a. romantic romantic ro ro- mantic manUc triangle You just gotta have another girl gir Hollywood says So the priced high-priced scenarists have given Buffalo Bill a beautiful Indian Indian Indian In In- dian doll named Dawn Starlight I who bene beneath th the up make-up and feathers feathera will be recognized as Linda Darnell Fact Tact and Fiction I The movie also ignores the historical historical historical his his- fact that Bill BUl was a Juvenile juvenile Juve juve- nile vile Dead End kid knocking off his liis first Indian at the age of 11 I The film does stick sUck to fact though when Bill kills Chief In a a. hand to hand to hand fight with bowie knives Anthony Quinn plays the unlucky Cheyenne And of course a guy like Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo falo Bill says sas Hollywood couldn't meet his wife to be to be in the stuffy parlor of his aunts aunt's home In St St. Louis So for the sake of drama Maureen is riding across the wide wide- open spaces in a covered wagon The Indians swoop down on the wagon train and are just about to give her hair a fancy upsweep when Buffalo Bill gallops to the rescue Two 1 Loves Lo Has Bill BillAnd BillAnd And of ot course there has to be bea a big scene between the two ladies who are in love with Bill One night when Mr and Mrs Bill are entertaining guests at a formal dinner party at Fort Clark little Dawn sneaks into the house goes upstairs takes of off her feathers and tries on one of Maureen's store I dresses A disrobing scene Hollywood Hollywood Hol HoI lywood says is la always box office Maureen discovers her and there are some nasty words Despite all the historical inaccuracies Inaccuracies inaccuracies inac Inac- curacies Buffalo Bill probably will come as welcome celluloid to western fans and Buffalo Bill ad ad- I ad-I At least they haven't got him twanging a guitar and singing singing sing sing- ing Home on the Range But what the picture lacks in story authenticity it will make up in to honest-to-gosh western scenery The studio sent a a. company to I Ithe the Crow Indian reservation in Montana for four weeks filming buffaloes Indians and a a. tribal sun sundance dance Stars McCrea OHara O'Hara and Darnell will spend another four weeks on the Navajo Indian reservation reservation reser reser- reser-I reser in Utah before beCore filming is completed Although Buffalo Bill lived until he was 71 dying peacefully in I bed the film biography stops at atthe atthe atthe the peak of his world show-world career when he entertained half the royalty royalty royalty roy roy- alty of Europe with his wild west show Hes He's 23 when the story I starts I Ranch owner and competent I Ih h horseman McCrea is enjoying the therole therole j role more than any character I Ive I've ever played I only hope chuckles McCrea frequently brushing aside locks of hair from his left eye that people wont won't mistake me for Veronica Lake Or wonder who's who when Maureen and I go into a clinch |
