“Buffalo Bill and The Indians” (1976) is another great, fully restored movie from the 1970’s, directed by auteur Robert Altman, starring Paul Newman, Geraldine Chaplin, Will Sampson, Joel Grey, Harvey Keitel and Burt Lancaster, now streaming for free on Tubi:
‘…Altman’s satire about ‘Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show’ in 1885, focuses on how the legendary figure (Newman) became a wig-wearing alcoholic showman…
‘…unable to distinguish his fabricated image from reality as the show cheapens Western history for entertainment.
“The film critiques myth-making with Bill's phony, rigged performances…
‘…challenging his artificial world’s commercialized version of the ‘taming’ of the ‘Wild West’…”
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