Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer.
- based on play or musical
- wild west
- wild west show
- 19th century
- revisionist western
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Paul Newman
The Star (William F. Cody)
Joel Grey
The Producer (Nate Salisbury)
Kevin McCarthy
The Publicist (Maj. John Burke)
Harvey Keitel
The Relative (Ed Goodman)
- Allan F. Nicholls — The Journalist (Prentiss Ingraham)
- Geraldine Chaplin — The Sure Shot (Annie Oakley)
- John Considine — The Sure Shot's Manager (Frank Butler)
- Robert DoQui — The Wrangler (Oswald Dart)
- Mike Kaplan — The Treasurer (Jules Keen)
- Bert Remsen — The Bartender (Crutch)
- Bonnie Leaders — The Mezzo-Contralto (Margaret)
- Noelle Rogers — The Lyric-Coloratura (Lucille DuCharme)
- Evelyn Lear — The Lyric-Soprano (Nina Cavallini)
- Denver Pyle — The Indian Agent (McLaughlin)
- Frank Kaquitts — The Indian (Sitting Bull)
- Directed
- Robert Altman
- Written
- Robert Altman, Alan Rudolph
Production
- Rating
- 5.5 / 10 · 112 ratings
- Studio
- The De Laurentiis Company, David Susskind Productions, Lion's Gate Films
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