Featured Audience Ratings

• Lucas M

  
  A simple, minor, funny and entretaining piece of art.

• Graham J

  
  Though a minor work, Newman is hilarious in the role and Altman paints another vivid picture.

• Walter M

  
  [font=Century Gothic]"Buffalo Bill and the Indians" is about the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show in 1885. Buffalo Bill Cody(Paul Newman) has just signed the legendary Indian Chief Sitting Bull to appear in his show. Buffalo BIll, here, is pictured as being a buffoon, a… More
  [font=Century Gothic]"Buffalo Bill and the Indians" is about the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show in 1885. Buffalo Bill Cody(Paul Newman) has just signed the legendary Indian Chief Sitting Bull to appear in his show. Buffalo BIll, here, is pictured as being a buffoon, a drunkard and having a fetish for opera singers. Since this movie is directed by Robert Altman, it contains some of his normal flourishes - Shelly Duvall, socio-politcal statement, overlapping dialogue, and a large capable cast including Newman, Harvey Keitel, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy, Geraldine Chaplin and Burt Lancaster who in a small role nearly steals the movie.[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]"Buffalo Bill and the Indians" is a disappointing movie. It is certainly well-staged but none of the characters truly come to life, despite the cast. I get the feeling that Altman was trying to make a statement about the nature of entertainment vs. reality but it backfires especially because this movie is not as good as "Annie Get Your Gun"(1950) which was immensely entertaining despite its antideluvian gender politics. [/font]

• Burger S

  
  In the same off-beat comedy style as Robert Altman's M*A*S*H*.

• Ashton R

  
  I'm starting to really like Robert Altman films. He has a certain way of making usually boring characters and/or topics really interesting. This flick was particularly charming, and was actually quite hilarious too. Paul Newman played a very believable past-his-prime Buffalo… More
  I'm starting to really like Robert Altman films. He has a certain way of making usually boring characters and/or topics really interesting. This flick was particularly charming, and was actually quite hilarious too. Paul Newman played a very believable past-his-prime Buffalo Bill with a kind of cynical, bitter intensity that was perfect for the character. It was also fun to see a very dorky Harvey Keitel who played the nephew of Bill; he's just so naive and gung-ho I found myself squeeing whenever he came on screen. It was slow at times, but the humour and just overall strangeness more than made up for it. Not for everyone, but still an interesting movie if nothing else.