Pony Express (film)

Pony Express is a 1953 American western film directed by Jerry Hopper and starring Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill, Forrest Tucker as Wild Bill Hickok, Jan Sterling as a Calamity Jane type character and Rhonda Fleming that was filmed in Kanab, Utah. The story is largely based on the 1925 silent film The Pony Express and tells a highly fictionalized account (e.g. Buffalo Bill was born in 1846 and would have been 14 at the time) of the formation of the Pony Express rapid transcontinental mail delivery pioneers in 1860’s United States.

Contents

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• Plot
• Cast
• Production
• References

Plot

In 1860 Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish a mail route from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California. On the way they battle the weather, hostile Indians and California secessionists intent on shutting the operation down to encourage California to secede from the Union.

Cast

Charlton Heston as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

Rhonda Fleming as Evelyn Hastings

Forrest Tucker as Wild Bill Hickok

Jan Sterling as Denny Russell

Michael Moore as Rance Hastings

Porter Hall as Jim Bridger

Richard Shannon as Red Barrett

Henry Brandon as Joe Cooper

Stuart Randall as Pemberton

Lewis Martin as Sergeant Russell

Pat Hogan as Chief Yellow Hand

Eric Alden as Miller

Howard Joslin as Harvey

Production

Charlton Heston did a film tie-in advertisement for Camel cigarettes.