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Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)

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11:00-13:30 Mon 22nd Feb 2016 150m
Dave

Synopsis

Like so many of Robert Altman's pictures, this is a glorious but infuriating mess that's home to a whirl of half-baked ideas, missed opportunities and startling moments. It started out, though, as a project for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid star Paul Newman and director George Roy Hill. Newman remained on board and plays Buffalo Bill with golden locks and a twinkle in his eye. However, he also portrays the legendary showman as something of a phoney, a Hollywood producer before his time, who hires Sitting Bull for his travelling Wild West show. Sadly, co-stars like Burt Lancaster, Joel Grey, Geraldine Chaplin and Harvey Keitel drift in and out of a picture driven solely by Altman's unfocused vision of a people on the edge of extinction and a country in turmoil.