Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
1976 film by Robert Altman / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson is a 1976 revisionist Western film directed by Robert Altman and based on the 1968 play Indians by Arthur Kopit. It stars Paul Newman as William F. Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, along with Geraldine Chaplin, Will Sampson, Joel Grey, Harvey Keitel, and Burt Lancaster as Bill's biographer, Ned Buntline. It was filmed in Panavision by cinematographer Paul Lohmann.
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson | |
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Directed by | Robert Altman |
Screenplay by | Alan Rudolph Robert Altman |
Based on | Indians 1969 play by Arthur Kopit |
Produced by | Dino De Laurentis |
Starring | Paul Newman Joel Grey Kevin McCarthy Harvey Keitel Will Sampson Allan F. Nicholls Geraldine Chaplin John Considine Burt Lancaster Bert Remsen Evelyn Lear |
Cinematography | Paul Lohmann |
Edited by | Peter Appleton Dennis M. Hill |
Music by | Richard Baskin |
Distributed by | United Artists (USA) Dino De Laurentiis Productions (overseas) |
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Running time | 123 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $7.1 million[1] |
Box office | $7.2 million (rentals)[1] |
As in his earlier film M*A*S*H, Altman skewers an American historical myth of heroism, in this case the notion that noble white men fighting bloodthirsty savages won the West. However, the film was poorly received at the time of its release, as the country was celebrating its bicentennial.[2]