Annie Get Your Gun Intro with Susan Lucci (2000)

Actors: Peter Fitzgerald (editor), Paul Hemstreet (producer), Peter Fitzgerald (writer), Peter Fitzgerald (director), Glenn Erickson (editor), Edward Arnold (actor), Louis Calhern (actor), Arthur Freed (actor), Howard Keel (actor), Frank Morgan (actor), J. Carrol Naish (actor), George Sidney (actor), Clinton Sundberg (actor), Keenan Wynn (actor), Judy Garland (actress),

Plot: Susan Lucci (one of the 1999 Broadway revival Annie Oakleys) recounts the legendary origins of Irving Berlin's Broadway musical, Annie Get Your Gun and the making of the top-grossing 1950 Betty Hutton MGM musical originally intended for Judy Garland in the title role.

Keywords: broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, dancer, dancing, irving-berlin, judy-garland, making-of, manhattan-new-york-city, mgm-studios, musical-filmmaking, new-york-city
Genres: Documentary, Music, Short,

Wild Bill (1995)

Actors: Ted Markland (actor), Michael Papajohn (actor), Peter Jason (actor), James Gammon (actor), Jeff Bridges (actor), Burton Gilliam (actor), John Hurt (actor), David Arquette (actor), John Dennis Johnston (actor), Keith Carradine (actor), Lee de Broux (actor), Anthony De Longis (actor), Bruce Dern (actor), James Remar (actor), Robert Peters (actor),

Plot: Wild Bill Hickok, famed lawman and gunman of the Old West, is haunted by his past and his reputation. He is loved by, but cannot love, Calamity Jane. Dogging his trail is young Jack McCall, who blames Bill for abandoning the boy's mother and destroying her life. McCall has sworn to kill Bill, and Bill's ghosts, his failing eyesight, and his fondness for opium may make McCall's task easier.

Keywords: 1860s, 1870s, ambush, bar-fight, based-on-book, based-on-novel, based-on-play, based-on-true-story, beating, black-&-white-to-color
Genres: Action, Biography, Western,
Taglines: A legend never dies. Take a walk on the wild side. The Name Is Legendary. The Man Is Real.

Quotes:

Charley Price: He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.

[Wild Bill and Calamity Jane are interrupted by Jack McCall during a romantic moment]::James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok: You inconsiderate bastard.

[Will Plummer sends in a woman to challenge Wild Bill to a gunfight]::James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok: What did he say?::Woman in bar: He said that you were a horse molester.::James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok: He say what horse?

[Jane surprises Bill by giving him a wet sloppy kiss]::Calamity Jane: Just for old times' sake.::[Bill wipes off his mouth]::Calamity Jane: You wipin' it off?::James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok: No. I'm rubbin' it in.

Charley Price: This town... I really think it's like something out of the Bible.::James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok: What part of the Bible?::Charley Price: The part right before God gets angry.

Charley Price: [Voiceover about Hickock] He fashioned himself as just an ordinary man in no way special. That was adeception. By luck or design it had fallen to him to play the hero's part, and to the end he embraced his fate.

Carl Mann: What kind of whiskey do you favor?::James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok: Carl, I prefer it in a glass. Other than that, it's all good.

California Joe: [to Bill] Bad luck to kill an Indian in a religious frame of mind.

James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok: You ought to know better than to touch another man's hat.

James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok: [to McCall] I'll buy you one. Whiskey's good for a man... helps him put things in perspective.

Buffalo Girls (1995)

Actors: Lee Holdridge (composer), Richard Bracken (editor), Anjelica Huston (actress), Reba McEntire (actress), Melanie Griffith (actress), Suzanne De Passe (producer), Liev Schreiber (actor), Gabriel Byrne (actor), Peter Coyote (actor), Tracey Walter (actor), John Diehl (actor), Sam Elliott (actor), Jack Palance (actor), Anthony De Longis (miscellaneous crew), Tim Carroll (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Wild. Untamed. Legendary. Buffalo Girls celebrates the bold escapades of tough-talking Calamity Jane Canary and her illustrious cohorts. It's the waning days of the Wild West and Jane, the rough 'n' rugged cowgirl, is searching not only for her long-lost daughter, but the Wild West she once knew. Jane traverses plains, mountains and continents until she finally discovers the answer to her problems: Dora, the vivacious, gold-hearted madam who's been her one true friend all along.

Keywords: annie-oakley, based-on-novel, calamity-jane, female-gunfighter, female-protagonist, sharpshooter, street-shootout, wild-bill-hickok
Genres: Western,

Quotes:

Teddy Blue: I'm too old to start drinking whiskey at ten in the morning.::Calamity Jane: Yeah, well, I'm too old to stop.

No Ears: All massacres are alike - the smell of death, the big birds to pick the bones clean.

Calamity Jane: Now you've been my friend for a long time, Blue, but if you feel lower than the scum on the bottom of a pond right now, you got it comin'!

Calamity Jane: Them last few days of wildness was our glory days.

Calamity Jane: There comes a time in the life of every gold town when it either gets civilized or goes bust. Before it makes up its mind which, men go crazy drinking, gambling, whoring... cutting into each other's claims and shooting each other over trifles. Deadwood just happened to be in its hellfire days.

[in a letter to her daughter]::Calamity Jane: In them days, Janey, there was only two ways for a woman to survive out west - wifin' and whorin'. Since I wasn't cut out for either one, I had to find my own way of surviving. So I lived like a man and sometimes passed myself off as one. It got kind of sticky at times, but it gave me a kind of freedom that few women ever knew.

Calamity Jane: Billy, I got a real itch to shoot somebody this morning, so as an old friend, I'm advising you to stay out of my way.

Dora DuFran: [drunk, Blue tries to scale a drainpipe outside Dora's window] Blue! What are you doing?::Teddy Blue: I'm scaling your castle walls, darlin'!::Dora DuFran: You're gonna get yourself killed, you fool!::Teddy Blue: It will be an honor to die for you, Dora! [the drainpipe starts to collapse] Uhhhh...::Dora DuFran: Blue? Blue! BLUUUUE!::Teddy Blue: AAAHHHHH! [he falls onto the roof of the shed]::Dora DuFran: Blue! Tell me you're not dead!

Jim Ragg: [Comes out of a store to find Bartle staring at him] You plannin' to murder me for my valuables? You got that look in your eye!::Bartle Bone: I'm just tryin' to figure out what in the name of Sam Hill you want to join up with Billy's charade for!::Jim Ragg: I need the money.::Bartle Bone: What in the blazes you need money for? You can't even stand to sleep with a roof over your head!

The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)

Actors: Buck Taylor (actor), Bonita Granville (actress), Jason Robards (actor), Robert F. Hoy (actor), James Keach (actor), Henry Wills (actor), Merle Haggard (actor), Matt Clark (actor), John Hart (actor), Ted Gehring (actor), Chuck Hayward (actor), Richard Farnsworth (actor), James Keach (actor), John Barry (composer), Christopher Lloyd (actor),

Plot: When the young Texas Ranger, John Reid, is the sole survivor of an ambush arranged by the militaristic outlaw leader, Butch Cavendich, he is rescued by an old childhood Comanche friend, Tonto. When he recovers from his wounds, he dedicates his life to fighting the evil that Cavendich represents. To this end, John Reid becomes the great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger. With the help of Tonto, the pair go to rescue the President Grant when Cavendich takes him hostage.

Keywords: 1860s, 1870s, 19th-century, action-hero, ambush, american-indian, based-on-comic, based-on-radio-show, battle, battlefield
Genres: Action, Adventure, Western,
Taglines: The untold story of the man behind the mask, and the legend behind the man. The loyal friend that he trusted. The woman that fate denied him. The great silver stallion he rode. And his consuming love of justice.

Quotes:

President Ulysses S. Grant: Who was that masked man?

Second chief: [Tonto has brought a wounded John Reid to the Indian camp, where he can hide from Butch Cavendish]... The Palefaces make many promises to us, yet they keep only one: they promise to take our land, and they take it. And now you bring one of them here, to be nursed back to health? Tonto, why?::Tonto: No one has greater cause than I to fill his heart with hatred for the White Man. He has taken my wife and my child from me. But the Paleface I have brought here today is my brother, and I will guard his life with my own if it comes to such. If I am wrong about him - if he proves to be an enemy - then I, Tonto, will decorate my lance with this White Man's hair. But until that day comes - UNLESS it comes - let him be judged not by his skin, but by his heart.

[Grant, on a train with Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickok and Col. George Armstrong Custer, is commenting on the decimation of the buffalo]::President Ulysses S. Grant: What happened to all the buffalo?::Buffalo Bill Cody: I shot 'em.

[Having just thanked the Lone Ranger for saving his life, Grant now turns to Tonto]::President Ulysses S. Grant: And how can I thank you?::Tonto: You can thank me by honoring your treaties with my people.::President Ulysses S. Grant: We will try.

Ranger Little: [During a gunfight in a canyon] It ain't the bullet that kills you...::[shoots a bad guy on a cliff]::Ranger Little: ...It's the fall.::[bad guy falls from cliff]

Balladeer: LYRICS TO "THE MAN IN THE MASK/BALLAD OF THE LONE RANGER" [FIRST VERSE] The legend started simply, just a boy without a home; taken in by Indians, but still pretty much alone. He had to struggle with strange customs, and his own fears from within. He learned the wisdom of the forest; he learned the ways of the wind. [FIRST CHORUS, opening credits] The legends tell of men who died to open up the West. They rode through Hell to find their Promised Land. The legends tell of One who tried to fight for all the rest; his name unknown, a stranger alone, The Man In The Mask... The legends tell of One Brave Man who rode to meet the test; his name unknown, a stranger alone, The Man In The Mask. [SECOND VERSE] Del Rio was a town in trouble, a town with a gun in its back; plagued by crime that just wouldn't stop, and cursed with a Sheriff that wore Black. So you'd think they'd be suspicious, but certain folks rarely are. They're willing to trust their law to just about any man who wears a star. [THIRD VERSE] Butch Cavendish lived undisturbed, waging his private war. And men who made mistakes were simply men he could not afford. Some say he was a monster, and others called him mad. Let's just say Butch Cavendish was everything that's bad. [FOURTH VERSE, following the ambush] One thing about that Cavendish, he knew how to set a trap. And he finished off the Rangers that day in Bryant's Gap. And Collins had to check them all 'till Butch was satisfied. Dead men lying everywhere, and bloody brothers side by side. [FIFTH VERSE] And Tonto recognized John Reid by the amulet he wore. But John had once saved Tonto's life, so this evened up the score. Tonto had to hide his friend and keep him out of town; 'cause if Butch had known that one Ranger lived, he was sure to hunt John down. [SIXTH VERSE] What is it that brings two friends together, or sends the waves to the sand? And what is it that drives a creature of nature to reach out to the world of Man? Just such a creature was this Great White Horse, as wise and as wild as a runaway. And the moment John first laid eyes on it, he swore he'd ride it someday. [SEVENTH VERSE] Now John Reid was just a memory; the Masked Man had taken his place. But that didn't mean his heart wasn't touched when he saw Amy Striker's face. Amy had stayed to do her uncle's work and to keep his dreams alive. But unless the Masked Man could find Cavendish, true justice would never survive. [EIGHTH VERSE, after Tonto is arrested for Collins' murder] I don't guess anyone stopped to ask what Tonto was guilty of. That didn't stop 'em from wanting to see him swinging high above. But Tonto showed no sign of fear, and he held on to a fervent hope... that the Masked Man wouldn't let his blood brother hang from the end of a rope. [NINTH VERSE] Those Cavendish Boys had been working real hard, going over each step of their plan. Meanwhile, ol' Butch was mighty disturbed by reports of a strange Masked Man. But he wouldn't let rumors mess up his scheme, so he set out on his final campaign. He and his Boys rode to their rendezvous with President Grant's private train. [TENTH VERSE] So Cavendish had pulled it off, vanished without firing a shot. The Masked Man and Tonto had to move fast, and ride while his trail was still hot. They didn't know what he intended to do, but the life at stake was President Grant's. Perhaps Butch would hold him; perhaps Butch would kill him; they just couldn't take that chance. [SECOND CHORUS, closing credits] A fiery horse across the plains and he was gone from sight. He changed the course of history as he rode. And folks would tell of one Lone Ranger turning wrong to right. They wondered who, but they never knew... The Man In The Mask

Tonto: Repay me by honoring your treaties with my people.::President Ulysses S. Grant: Yes, we will TRY, you have my word.

This Is the West That Was (1974)

Actors: Jane Alexander (actress), Matt Clark (actor), Dick DeBenedictis (composer), Anthony Franciosa (actor), Milton Selzer (actor), Bruce Glover (actor), Lance LeGault (actor), Stuart Margolin (actor), Bill McKinney (actor), Roy Huggins (producer), Woodrow Parfrey (actor), Stefan Gierasch (actor), Luke Askew (actor), Fielder Cook (director), Kim Darby (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Western,

Badman's Country (1958)

Actors: Jack Tornek (actor), Malcolm Atterbury (actor), Fred F. Sears (director), Neville Brand (actor), William Bryant (actor), Irving Gertz (composer), Buster Crabbe (actor), Orville H. Hampton (writer), Robert E. Kent (producer), Fred Graham (actor), John Harmon (actor), Karin Booth (actress), Russell Johnson (actor), Jack Kenny (actor), Al Wyatt Sr. (actor),

Plot: Pat Garrett arrives in Abilene where he catches five of Butch Cassidy's gang. He calls in Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson and they learn there is a half million dollar shipment of money arriving by train and Cassidy is amassing enough men to take it. They also realize he has tapped the telegraph line and they send a false message saying the money is already in the Abilene bank. But the townspeople not only refuse to fight but they release the prisoners trying to avoid a gungight in their town.

Keywords: abilene-kansas, bar-shootout, gold, outlaw-gang, street-shootout
Genres: Western,
Taglines: Warner's Big Six-Gun Saga!

Quotes:

Lorna Pardee: I saw it today, Pat. Even without your badge, you were the lawman. You took over.

Pat Garrett: A lot of us have fought hard to hold this country, and I don't think we should give it to Cassidy on a silver platter.

Pony Express (1953)

Actors: Charlton Heston (actor), Cap Somers (actor), Stuart Randall (actor), Chet Brandenburg (actor), Jerry James (actor), Mark Roberts (actor), Michael Jeffers (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Porter Hall (actor), Henry Brandon (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor), Chick Hannan (actor), Len Hendry (actor), Forrest Tucker (actor), Harry Tenbrook (actor),

Plot: Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish a mail route that can get mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, in ten days. Along the way they must battle bad weather, hostile Indians and outlaws intent on robbing the mail and shutting down the entire operation.

Keywords: antislavery, buffalo-bill, buffalo-bill-cody, chief-yellow-hand, day-for-night, duel, duel-to-the-death, mail, native-american, newspaper-headline
Genres: History, Western,
Taglines: GALLOPING THRILLS! A mighty adventure when America's destiny rode in the saddle bags of the...PONY EXPRESS "Their achievement can only be equaled...never excelled." ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Quotes:

Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: [to Indians] Next time send your chief Yellow Hand after me.

Evelyn Hastings: Mr. Cody, Mr. Cody, I can never thank you enough.::Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: Sure you can if you want to.

Wild Bill Hickok: [Speaking to Cody after he has insulted Yellow Hand] If he ever catches you, I hope you're not around.

Wild Bill Hickok: Listen, Shorty, you follow the redhead and I'll marry you.::Denny Russell: Easy for you to say. You don't like women.::Wild Bill Hickok: That's right. Maybe that's why I'm so fond of you.::Denny Russell: Thanks. Go shoot yourself.

Wild Bill Hickok: [Seeing Denny in a fashionable dress] It's not the get-up, Shorty. It;s just that you can't make a racehorse out of a jackass.

The Plainsman (1936)

Actors: Davison Clark (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Hooper Atchley (actor), Arthur Aylesworth (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Jess Cavin (actor), Frank Albertson (actor), Granville Bates (actor), Hank Bell (actor), Charles Bickford (actor), Monte Blue (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), George Cleveland (actor),

Plot: With the end of the North American Civil War, the manufacturers of repeating rifles find a profitable means of making money selling the weapons to the North American Indians, using the front man John Lattimer to sell the rifles to the Cheyenne. While traveling in a stagecoach with Calamity Jane and William "Buffalo Bill" Cody and his young wife Louisa Cody that want to settle down in Hays City managing a hotel, Wild Bill Hickok finds the guide Breezy wounded by arrows and telling that the Indians are attacking a fort using repeating rifles. Hickok meets Gen. George A. Custer that assigns Buffalo Bill to guide a troop with ammunition to help the fort. Meanwhile the Cheyenne kidnap Calamity Jane, forcing Hickok to expose himself to rescue her.

Keywords: ambush, american-civil-war, american-indian, army, assassination, bar-shootout, barber-shop, battle-of-little-big-horn, bison, black-hills
Genres: Biography, History, Romance, War, Western,

Quotes:

Wild Bill Hickok: What started you on the warpath, Yellow Hand?::Yellow Hand: Where sun rise, white man's land. Where sun set, Indian land. White man come, take our land, kill buffalo, our food. White man promise us food. White man lie. Now Cheyenne buy white man thunder stick. Soon war drum sound in all Indian land. All tribes ride with Yellow Hand. We drive white man, like buffalo, away back to rising sun. Yellow Hand has spoken.

Tony: Hey, why don't you get a haircut?::Wild Bill Hickok: Short hair makes the Indians mad, and they're mad enough already.

Louisa Cody: Will, does he kill like that?::Buffalo Bill Cody: Ain't a corpse-maker like him, honey!

Wild Bill Hickok: That river clipper is saying good-bye to you, ma'am. Now you're going to have three long days of this prairie clipper.::Louisa Cody: But tomorrow is Sunday. Do we have to ride on Sunday?::Wild Bill Hickok: Well, there's no Sunday west of Junction City, no law west of Hayes City and no God west of Carson City.

[last lines]::Epilogue: It shall be as it was in the past... Not with dreams, but with strength and with courage... Shall a nation be molded to last.

Wild Bill Hickok: Keep your hands off your guns or there will be more dead men here than this town can afford to bury!

John Lattimer: I'm not armed, Mr. Hickok, I'm not armed!::Wild Bill Hickok: I'll give you three minutes to fix that. I'll be waiting outside.::John Lattimer: I'm just leaving town.::Wild Bill Hickok: You're not leaving town unless dead men can walk.

Wild Bill Hickok: This is a big country and trails cross... sometimes.

Calamity Jane: Tip your hat when you speak to a lady!::Wild Bill Hickok: I will... when I speak to a lady.

Calamity Jane: Bill Hickok, you ornery son-of-a-mule. You wouldn't give a bad dime to a sick kid, would you?::Wild Bill Hickok: You might be right, Calamity.::Calamity Jane: No, I ain't. I know I ain't worth a bad dime.

The World Changes (1933)

Actors: Oscar Apfel (actor), James Bush (actor), George Chandler (actor), William Burress (actor), Clay Clement (actor), Donald Cook (actor), Alan Dinehart (actor), Douglass Dumbrille (actor), John Elliott (actor), Wallis Clark (actor), Eddie Graham (actor), Harrison Greene (actor), Howard C. Hickman (actor), Samuel S. Hinds (actor), Arthur Hohl (actor),

Genres: Drama,
Taglines: HUMAN! TOUCHING! DYNAMIC!

Fighting with Buffalo Bill (1926)

Actors: Grace Cunard (actress), Edmund Cobb (actor), Robert Homans (actor), Wallace MacDonald (actor), Nelson McDowell (actor), Ray Taylor (director), George H. Plympton (writer), Howard Truesdale (actor), William F. Cody (writer), William Lord Wright (writer), Cuyler Supplee (actor), Elsa Benham (actress), Harry Blake (actor),

Genres: Western,