THE WHITE BUFFALO (1977) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: J. Lee Thompson
Charles Bronson, Will Sampson, Jack Warden,
Kim Novak, Clint Walker, Stuart Whitman,
Slim Pickens, Cara Williams, John Carradine,
Shay Duffin, Ed Lauter, Douglas Fowley
Eccentric myth-making with Charles Bronson as Wild Bill Hickock and Will Sampson as Crazy Horse, both operating under assumed names and both on the trail of an elusive and seemingly murderous white buffalo. (Parallels to "Moby Dick" are not coincidental.) As a movie star who could more or less choose his own projects, Bronson had a distinct appreciation for offbeat stories, and this is one of them. He was his own subgenre, really, with a career based solidly in the top end of B movies distinguished by their ruthlessness, their primitive outlook on humanity, and a sense that he was always slightly amused by it all, more than happy to be doing what he was doing, because he knew it was way more fun than shoveling coal.
