Pony Express

The setting of the film is the beginning of the Pony Express, which ran from 1860 to 1861.

Yet the Californian secessionists who try to stop the Pony Express's first-ever delivery use dynamite, which was not invented until 1867.

Charlton Heston is billed as 'Captain William Frank "Buffalo Bill" Cody.

"Buffalo Bill"'s full name was William Frederick Cody.

The legendary duel between Yellow Hand and Buffalo Bill took place in 1876, sixteen years after the Pony Express was created.

Chief Yellow Hand's name is a mistranslation from the Cheyenne.

His real name was Yellow Hair, which ironically was an Indian name for George Armstrong Custer.

The founders of the Pony Express were not William Cody and James Butler Hickok but William H.

Russell, William B.

Waddell, and Alexander Majors.

Hickok wasn't a rider for the Pony Express he only worked as a stockman In a scene where Charlton Heston and Forrest Tucker mount their horses and take out their rifles the action is repeated when the camera cuts to a close up on them.

There are just enough accurate historical elements to make this story interesting, but don't go betting the ranch on Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok working together to help establish the Pony Express. Cody did work as an Express rider, but he was only fifteen years old at the time!

Rhonda Fleming and Jan Sterling seem an unlikely pair but here they are cast in this mythical Western. I say mythical not as a compliment, but it must have got audiences in to see Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill and Forrest Tucker as Wild Bill Hickok.

Rhonda fleming and jan sterling are the only reasons to watch this film .. charlton heston plays his usual cocky self and forrest tucker should have found a better role because he was no wild bill hickock in anyone's wildest imagination ..

Fairly ordinary 1860s Western tells a fictional account of how the Pony Express Mail Delivery System was founded, helped along by Buffalo Bill Cody (Charlton Heston) and Wild Bill Hickok (Forrest Tucker). A young Heston's determined and self-assured characterization makes for some enjoyment early on in the picture, though the second half becomes somewhat routine with typical "Cowboys and Indians" confrontations.

This really is not that bad of a early 1950 western but since most know the history of the pony express plus Bill Hickok it does not add up to the expectation. It is more-or-less a fantasy of the writers as they makes up nearly the entire script.

A spectacular and mighty adventure in the early 1860s when America's destiny rode in the saddle bags of the Pony Express . As the Pony Express was a mail service delivering messages , newspapers , mail, and small packages from St.

Although the Pony Express, a mail service between St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California, only operated for 18 months between April 1860 and October 1861, it has become part of the legend of the American West.

Paramount's PONY EXPRESS (1953) is a reasonably good fifties western. Produced for the studio by Nat Holt - it was made the same year as their pivotal contribution to the genre "Shane".

I'm suspicious to talk about Charlton Heston, due l've been considered him the best actor ever, Pony Express l did watch it on first time in 1980, has an wrong Hollywood's dramatization for commercial purpose, joint Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok in this enterprise, although they never attended in those facts, the picture is inaccurate, forgetting this outrageous mistake the picture worth a look, telling one more chapter of the America's history, Rhonda Fleming is in full shape, beauty than never, Forrest Tucker had a rare opportunity to play a good guy and Jan Sterling was at peak of her career, the simple presence of the Chuck, the picture gets strenght due his fabulous and resounding performance, an average production that deserves some recognition !!!