Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock. The early career of legendary lawman is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and a reunion with Calamity Jane.
Acting
Jeff Bridges' thousand-yard stare could stop a train.
Direction
Walter Hill stages gunfights as brutal poetry, not choreography.
Cinematography
Lloyd Ahern's hazy, opium-tinged visuals blur past and present.
Director
Walter Hill
Jeff Bridges
Wild Bill Hickok
Ellen Barkin
Calamity Jane
John Hurt
Charley Prince
Diane Lane
Susannah Moore
Keith Carradine
Buffalo Bill Cody
David Arquette
Jack McCall
Christina Applegate
Lurline Newcomb
Bruce Dern
Will Plummer
James Gammon
California Joe
Marjoe Gortner
Preacher
James Remar
Donnie Lonigan
Karen Huie
Song Lew
Peter Jason
Dave McCandless
Steve Reevis
Sioux Chief
Robert Knott
Dave Tutt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Walter Hill had wanted to make this since 1976; the delay let him refine the script into something far more elegiac than his earlier action work.
US
