Pony Express Days

Jul 13, 1940

0h 20m

★ 6.0

Overview

In this short, a youthful Buffalo Bill Cody joins the newly-formed Pony Express as a station hand and replaces the regular rider when he is shot.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

The Vitaphone Corporation

Pony Express Days Trailers

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Cast

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

George Reeves

Johnny Frey

David Bruce

Bolliver Roberts

Frank Wilcox

Nevada Jim

J. Farrell MacDonald

Colonel Joseph Randall

Joe King

Tipton Walton

Addison Richards

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6.2

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5.8

Buffalo Bill

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Scout William F. Cody marries a U.S. senator's daughter, fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.

5.6

Pony Express

Jun 15, 1953

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6.3

The Plainsman

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Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

6.3

Annie Oakley

Nov 15, 1935

Awkward Annie loves her sharpshooting rival in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

5.4

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Jun 24, 1976

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.

5.1

Winds of the Wasteland

Jul 6, 1936

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5.5

Don't Touch the White Woman!

Jan 23, 1974

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6.3

Only the Valiant

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Only the Valiant, a classic western adventure, based on a novel by Charles Marquis Warren, the film tells the story of a Cavalry officer who volunteers for a suicidal mission to fight the hostile Apaches in an effort to prove his loyalty to his men and the woman he loves.

5.5

Seven Hours of Gunfire

Apr 5, 1965

When he was 12 years old, Bill Cody, later knew as Buffalo Bill, is rider for "pony express" carrying the mail through the wilds of America. It becomes later caravans guide. When driving one of them meets Luisa, the niece of a priest who tried to evangelize the savage tribes accompanied by a converted Indian. It is a dangerous time because, before the advancing white man, the Sioux tribes are buying weapons from unscrupulous dealers...

0.0

Apache Country

May 30, 1952

A criminal gang provokes the local Apaches in order to divert the authorities' attention from their own activities.

3.8

Young Buffalo Bill

Apr 11, 1940

It's 1860 and the old Spanish land grants are being surveyed. Montez is after part of Don Regas' rancho and gets the surveyor to alter the boundary. But Don Regas still has the original grant written on a bandanna. Montez sends Indians after it but Bill Cody and Gabby fight them off and a wounded Gabby unknowingly ends up with the missing million dollar deed wrapped around his arm for a bandage.

5.0

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4.8

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