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Pony Express (1953)
Western gunfighter gives man a silver dollar to arrange a gunfight
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The 1953 film "Pony Express" is a Western film about the founding of the famous "Pony Express"
mail delivery service which ran from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California from 1860 to 1861.
The Express used relays of horses and took ten days to deliver mail.
The film is fiction and includes the Western figures Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok along with
Southern Confederates who want to have California secede from the United States.
Early in the film Wild Bill Hickok meets Buffalo Bill in St. Joseph and hold a simulated gunfight.
Wild Bill Hickok gives a local man a silver dollar which the man then holds.
1. Buffalo Bill arrives
Buffalo Bill (Charlton Heston), whose real name was William Cody, assists two stagecoach passengers
Evelyn Hastings (Rhonda Fleming) and her brother Rance Hastings who are stopped by
soldiers. Evelyn and Rance are siblings from the South and Rance is a Confederate agent.
The three take the stagecoach to St. Joseph, Missouri.
Retired Army Sergeant Russell (Lewis Martin) runs a company in St. Joseph and his daughter
Denny Russell (Jan Sterling) is one of Buffalo Bill's girlfriends.
2. Denny Russell sees stagecoach arrive
Denny dresses as a man and greets Buffalo Bill.
Buffalo Bill introduces Evelyn as his "wife" and the two ladies get into a mud fight and then become
sort-of friends.
Wild Bill arrives and arranges with a local man to find Buffalo Bill.
The two men stage a simulated gunfight and Wild Bill then pays the man a silver dollar.
3. Wild Bill Hickok gives silver dollar to man
The man drops the coin into a horse watering trough and then picks it up.
4. Man holds dollar
The man leaves with his dollar.
5. Buffalo Bill sees Russell
They meet at Russell's office.
6. Russell gives instructions to Denny
Russell asks his daughter to follow Evelyn to see what the two Southerners are up to.
7. Two pretty girls
The two girls both set their sights on Buffalo Bill.
It takes 21 days for a stagecoach to get from Missouri to California and some residents feel that
California is not really part of the United States. Confederate agents want to encourage this feeling.
A group of men including Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok start the Pony Express which will shorten
the mail time to ten days. The Confederates plan to stop the Express by any means.
The Pony Express starts in Missouri with a send-off ceremony for the first rider who carries a message
that the two California Senators voted to pass a United States law outlawing slavery.
8. Pony Express rider leaves St. Joseph
Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill have gone ahead and find an Express station destroyed by Confederates
using dynamite.
The Express continues and the last rider, Buffalo Bill, successfully arrives in Sacramento California
with the mail.
9. Buffalo Bill arrives in Sacramento
He is met by the Express agent and a crowd celebrating the Express.
10. Sacramento agent reads notice
The Sacramento Express agent reads the message about outlawing slavery.
Buffalo Bill spots one of the Confederate killers and shoots him.
11. Buffalo Bill gunfight
Buffalo Bill kills the Confederate but another one shoots Denny.
12. Buffalo Bill holds Denny
Denny dies and Bill gets on his horse and rides out of town.
13. Pony Express monument
A Pony Express monument ends the film.
Cast, Directors, Writers:
Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill
Rhonda Fleming as Evelyn Hastings
Michael Moore as Rance Hastings
Lewis Martin as Sergeant Russell
Jan Sterling as Denny Russell
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writers: Frank Gruber, Charles Marquis Warren
Rhonda Fleming as Evelyn Hastings
Michael Moore as Rance Hastings
Lewis Martin as Sergeant Russell
Jan Sterling as Denny Russell
Writers: Frank Gruber, Charles Marquis Warren
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