Operation Buddy (2013)

Actors: Jerry Bell Jr. (actor), Raj Patel (actor), Julianne Johnson (actress), Michael Feely (director), Michael Feely (writer), Michael Feely (actor), Michael Feely (producer), Samuel R. Benjamin (actor), Mark O'Leal (producer), Dan Crothers (composer), Dan Crothers (actor), Mark Eisenhart (actor), Andre Nash (actor), Jay Azevedo (actor), Jordan Byers (actor),

Plot: A traitorous scientist steals classified cloning/DNA material and creates an army of clones. His intent is to capture the world's oil supply. To avert the threat the President authorizes a decoy team of klutzy women scientists to create an antidote. Their experiments cause bizarre & hilarious side effects and they show us the way on how to deal with life's most complex problems by using comedy with the truth. Against all odds they stumble upon the new formula but time is running out.

Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Short,

The Milagro Files (2013)

Actors: Jerry Bell Jr. (actor), Raj Patel (actor), Julianne Johnson (actress), Samuel R. Benjamin (actor), Michael Feely (writer), Michael Feely (actor), Michael Feely (director), Mark O'Leal (producer), Dan Crothers (composer), Dan Crothers (actor), Mark Eisenhart (actor), Andre Nash (actor), Raymond Kelley (editor), Bradley Hackworth (actor), Raymond Kelley (actor),

Genres: Drama, Short,

A Thousand Words (2012)

Actors: Brian Robbins (producer), Kerry Washington (actress), Ruby Dee (actress), Ariel Winter (actress), Nicolas Cage (producer), Alain Chabat (producer), John Witherspoon (actor), Cliff Curtis (actor), Alain Chabat (actor), Eddie Murphy (actor), Greg Collins (actor), Allison Janney (actress), Matt Winston (actor), Brian Robbins (director), John Debney (composer),

Plot: Jack McCall, played by Eddie Murphy, finds an unusual tree in his yard after an encounter with a spiritual guru. After discovering that with each word he speaks, a leaf drops off of the tree, Jack refuses to speak at all, as doing so will keep the tree, and him, alive. However, his work, marriage, and friendships are all affected by his choice. Can Jack figure out an alternative method of survival? Or will he simply have to live the rest of his life to the fullest?

Keywords: box-office-flop, critically-bashed, liar, literary-agent, magical-tree, number-in-title, three-word-title, title-spoken-by-character
Genres: Comedy, Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: He only has 1000 words left to discover what matters the most. Make every word count. Nothin' but a good time

Quotes:

Aaron Wiseberger: When you talk all the leaves fall off the tree.

Jack McCall: I guess you never know if the last time you see someone is going to be the last time you ever see someone.

Aaron Wiseberger: I went to community college, and that was only because my grandma was sleeping with the dean.

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 White Buffalo (1977)

Actors: Richard Sale (writer), John Barry (composer), Richard Sale (writer), Dino De Laurentiis (producer), Kim Novak (actress), Slim Pickens (actor), Stuart Whitman (actor), Charles Bronson (actor), John Carradine (actor), Martin Kove (actor), Ed Lauter (actor), Douglas Fowley (actor), Jack Warden (actor), Dan Perri (miscellaneous crew), J. Lee Thompson (director),

Plot: In this strange western version of JAWS, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations - dim, filthy, makeshift taverns; freezing, slaughterhouse-like frontier towns and beautifully desolate high country - before improbably teaming up with a young Indian named Crazy Horse to pursue the creature.

Keywords: 19th-century, animal-attack, bar-shootout, based-on-novel, black-hills, buffalo, cave, cheyenne-wyoming, crazy-horse, dream
Genres: Western,
Taglines: Two legendary enemies unite to fight the charging white beast!! The White Earthquake is Here!

Quotes:

Abel Pinkney: When you get through planting them two, I got three more customers (bodies) for you inside the coach. And I believe they got enough money to pay for their own box.::Amos Bixby: That's right kindly of you, Abel. You better lay them out in the snow until I get back. That will keep them fresh.

[after their stagecoach is attacked, Hickok and Pickney check for casualties]::Wild Bill Hickok: This lady's walkin' the streets of glory.::Abel Pinkney: God damn! Blue Whistler musta caught her right in the third eye.

Wild Bill Hickok: What are Crows doin' in Sioux territory?::Charlie Zane: Probably heard about the white buff on the moccassin telegraph.

Jack McCall Desperado (1953)

Actors: Charles Morton (actor), Alex Montoya (actor), Victor Adamson (actor), Bill Coontz (actor), George Montgomery (actor), Joe McGuinn (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Emile Avery (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor), Douglas Kennedy (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Jack Low (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Jack Perrin (actor),

Plot: Jack McCall is a Southerner, but joins the Union Army in the Civil War. When he is tricked into giving out the location of headquarters, he's tried as a spy and sentenced to death. He makes good his escape, but Hickok and Bat kill his parents to seize his plantation and money. Trying to prove his innocence, he locates Spargo after the war, who's paid off by Hickok and Bat, so that Jack is once again jailed and again escapes. He still has hopes of clearing his name, but Bat and Hickok now are after gold in the Dakotas.

Keywords: civil-war, gunfighter
Genres: Western,
Taglines: ONLY DESPERATE MEN RODE HIS TRAIL! (original ad - all caps)

Badlands of Dakota (1941)

Actors: Richard Dix (actor), Robert Barron (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Don Barclay (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Paul Bryar (actor), Hank Bell (actor), John L. Cason (actor), Lon Chaney Jr. (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Broderick Crawford (actor), Rube Dalroy (actor), Andy Devine (actor), Eddie Dew (actor), Jim Farley (actor),

Genres: Romance, Western,
Taglines: THE LAND OF LAWLESSNESS! (original ad - all caps) Deadwood City -- where a slow draw meant a fast death! Thundering Down from the Black Hills...Come the Boldest, Blackest Days of the West! Deadwood City -- a Roaring Capitol of an Empire of Lawlessness -- Where Life Was Cheap -- Love Priceless!

Deadwood Dick (1940)

Actors: Roy Barcroft (actor), Dick Botiller (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Yakima Canutt (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Ed Cassidy (actor), Edward Cecil (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Jim Corey (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), Art Dillard (actor), Bert Dillard (actor), Donald Douglas (actor), Victor Adamson (actor),

Plot: Columbia's 11th serial (between "Terry and the Pirates" and "The Green Archer") and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed. The standard one-man-to-a-hoss and nobody walks rule of Westerns tended to cramp Horne's usual style of directing, in that he wasn't able to pour six or seven henchies into a four-door sedan and have them come tumbling out like the clowns at a circus, and the surprise with those familiar with his serials is that he didn't have all the henchmen riding around in a stagecoach or wagon. And, since they usually stayed on their horse, he was unable to have them rounding a corner on foot at an angle, freeze in surprise with their arms thrust over their heads, do a couple of takes and hot-foot it stage left for an alarmed feet-do-your-stuff exit. The character of "Deadwood Dick" in this serial is just a name that had a ring to it, was not intended to be based on the real-life "Deadwood Dick" in any manner, and those who delight in pointing out that the real "Deadwood Dick" was a black man and Columbia didn't know what they were doing miss an obvious point; the Columbia writers most likely knew that, but they weren't writing a factual history of the West and their fictional character could be what they wanted him to be. And was. That he ended up being played by the dullest actor (Don Douglas) ever to essay the lead role in a serial (at least until Republic came up with the likes of Bill Henry and Harry Lauter as serial leads) probably wasn't something they planned. This one had a little promise with veteran western actor Lane Chandler as "Wild Bill Hickok" but that promise soon faded with Hickok's demise in chapter one of this 15-chapter serial, where a renegade band led by a mysterious, masked character known as "The Skull" is terrorizing the town of Deadwood in the territory of Dakota. Dick Stanley, editor of the Dakota Pioneer Press and a leading member of the Statehood For Dakota committee, is, unknown to his fellow townsmen and committee members, the equally mysterious Deadwood Dick, who is fighting The Skull and his gang. This makes everything about even as, unknown to Stanley, fellow-committeeman banker Transon Drew is The Skull. Well, actually, The Skull is a bit ahead as his "speaking voice" in costume is that of Forrest Taylor, who is nowhere in sight among the suspected citizens. Frank Butler, Stanley's "star' reporter is killed when he discovers that The Skull has plans to build an mpire of his own, and this also raises the possibility that Butler's sister, Anne, is also in danger. Chapter One ends with Deadwood Dick involved in a fight on a railroad handcar (filled with dynamite, naturally) with Jack McCall, the slayer of Wild Bill Hickok, and the handcar crashes to the bottom of a deep gorge and crashes... and explodes. Stanley/Deadwood Dick faces 13 more cliffhangers (mainly because he keeps letting Drew in on his plans to capture The Skull),before he unmasks The Skull in Chapter 15, "The Deadwood Express," Most of the action footage involving the Deadwood Dick character shows up again in 1954's "Riding With Buffalo Bill", where Marshall Reed as Buffalo Bill sans goatee, rides around in Deadwood Dick's costume.

Keywords: 1890s, ambush, arsenal, barfly, bartender, blacksmith, cattle-rustling, cattle-stampede, character-name-in-title, cliffhanger
Genres: Western,
Taglines: Most Colorful Character of the Old West! (original poster) STALKING THE MASKED TERROR OF THE PLAINS TO HIS DOOM! (original poster-all caps) The old West's hero of heroes...in the most blood-chilling Chapter-Play ever to thunder out of the bullet-streaked past! (original poster) The Most Colorful Character of the Old Lawless West Blazes to Life! (original print ad) Shooting his way through the season's most adventure-crammed Chapter Play! (original print ad)

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.