The White Buffalo (1977)

97 min · Western, Western film, adventure film, drama film

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Directors

J. Lee Thompson

Cast

Charles Bronson, Will Sampson, Jack Warden, Slim Pickens, Kim Novak, Clint Walker, Stuart Whitman

The story

Wild Bill Hickok is haunted by his dreams of a giant white buffalo, so much that he travels the West to find the beast. Along the way, he meets the Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, who is also searching the plains for the giant white buffalo, which has killed his daughter. Hickok and Crazy Horse team up to kill the elusive buffalo.

Catalogue themes and tags

1870s, Buffalo, Trapper, Natural horror films, Western, Drama, Indian Western

Genres

Western, Western film, adventure film, drama film

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