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अपनी भाषा में प्लॉट जोड़ेंA romanticized biography of the famous sharpshooter.A romanticized biography of the famous sharpshooter.A romanticized biography of the famous sharpshooter.
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Chief Thunderbird
- Chief Sitting Bull
- (as Chief Thunder Bird)
Ernie Adams
- Wrangler at Buffalo Bill's Show
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
Richard Alexander
- Crown Prince Wilhelm
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
Philip Armenta
- Rain-in-the-Face
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
Frank Austin
- Friend of Lem
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
Brooks Benedict
- Man in Saloon
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
Harry Bernard
- Billposter
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
Willie Best
- Second Cook
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Stanley Blystone
- Shooting Match Judge
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This very loose biography of the famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley plays like a decent 30s romantic melodrama, rather than a western. The connection with the western genre is of course Buffalo Bill's show, who as the actual old west started vanishing gave easterners a taste of it, in the form of a lavish extravaganza.
Barbara Stanwyck is charming as the talented female sharpshooter, and the two gallants who compete for her affection initially seem like they are going to be villains, but both turn out to be decent people.
Apart from the old style romance, the movie gives you a chance to see a reconstruction of what Buffalo Bill's show might have looked like. Judging by the early pictures and films of the actual show that have survived, they did a reasonable job.
Not much of a western, but a pleasant entertainment.
Barbara Stanwyck is charming as the talented female sharpshooter, and the two gallants who compete for her affection initially seem like they are going to be villains, but both turn out to be decent people.
Apart from the old style romance, the movie gives you a chance to see a reconstruction of what Buffalo Bill's show might have looked like. Judging by the early pictures and films of the actual show that have survived, they did a reasonable job.
Not much of a western, but a pleasant entertainment.
George Stevens directs this biography on the early career of sharp-shooter Annie Oakley as if it were a star-crossed lovers' tale, replete with heartache and self-sacrifice. Backwoods girl from Ohio in the 1890s enters a shooting contest against world's champion Toby Walker and nearly beats him; this leads to a co-starring spot in Buffalo Bill's traveling western show, where the primrose gal becomes a star and falls in love with competitor Walker. Barbara Stanwyck was born to play Annie Oakley, yet her performance isn't the raucous hoot one might expect (this is director Stevens' fault, who lingers on Annie's sympathy and compassion for others so long, it makes her seem like a bleeding-heart). Still, Stanwyck is the reason to watch, and she's best in the film's first-half--when Annie still has a little gumshun in her and playful self-assurance. Stevens seems more interested in the budding love story between Oakley and Walker than in creating an actual document of Oakley's colorful life (which we are told at the start was stranger than any fiction). Certainly a good try, with funny bits of business happening along the sidelines and plenty of blustery character actors in support. **1/2 from ****
The historical Annie Oakley came from a Quaker family and had an understated, quiet demeanor that often comes as a surprise to people who know her only from the over-the-top Hutton movie or the typically asinine performance of Ethel "One Volume, Full Blast" Merman.
Many people still remembered Oakley the person at the time of this movie; she had passed away only in 1926 and was still a celebrity, shooting perfect hundreds in a row in 1922, aged 62. The source of one of Barbara Stanwyck's great early characterizations, Oakley probably shared personality traits with the actress. Stanwyck was also very quiet and intensely private during the 1930s, socializing on her ranch only with the Jack Bennies, Joan Crawford, and the Joel McCreas.
Box office returns were good, for a Stanwyck of this vintage. They would have been better if RKO hadn't clumsily stepped on the film by releasing 'In Person' only a few days after 'Oakley' came out, causing some competition within RKO's own fanbase. Still, it was Stanwyck's biggest box office of her career up to that time and she was slowly moving out of B films.
The contemporary critics loved Stanwyck's performance: "The New York World-Telegram wrote that, "The talented and attractive Barbara Stanwyck gives by far the best screen performance of her career. Miss Stanwyck plays the role with such commendable restraint and with such feeling for the character that she almost becomes Annie Oakley." Critic Richard Watts (he did film criticism for a couple of years at the beginning of his long and distinguished career) praised the entire film and said that "Miss Stanwyck has never been more real and touching than she is in the title role."
And there is no reason to argue with them - it's a great performance by one of the greatest actresses under strong direction by one of the master artists of film, George Stevens.
Many people still remembered Oakley the person at the time of this movie; she had passed away only in 1926 and was still a celebrity, shooting perfect hundreds in a row in 1922, aged 62. The source of one of Barbara Stanwyck's great early characterizations, Oakley probably shared personality traits with the actress. Stanwyck was also very quiet and intensely private during the 1930s, socializing on her ranch only with the Jack Bennies, Joan Crawford, and the Joel McCreas.
Box office returns were good, for a Stanwyck of this vintage. They would have been better if RKO hadn't clumsily stepped on the film by releasing 'In Person' only a few days after 'Oakley' came out, causing some competition within RKO's own fanbase. Still, it was Stanwyck's biggest box office of her career up to that time and she was slowly moving out of B films.
The contemporary critics loved Stanwyck's performance: "The New York World-Telegram wrote that, "The talented and attractive Barbara Stanwyck gives by far the best screen performance of her career. Miss Stanwyck plays the role with such commendable restraint and with such feeling for the character that she almost becomes Annie Oakley." Critic Richard Watts (he did film criticism for a couple of years at the beginning of his long and distinguished career) praised the entire film and said that "Miss Stanwyck has never been more real and touching than she is in the title role."
And there is no reason to argue with them - it's a great performance by one of the greatest actresses under strong direction by one of the master artists of film, George Stevens.
Barbara Stanwyck, as I have mentioned in other reviews, was a tough woman but a likable one, at least with me. I don't normally go for those tough dames but her voice and personality she brought to a lot of roles always attracted me. A case in point was this movie. I doubt if another actress would have made this a better-than-average film, which Stanwyck did.
Preston Foster's character in here, meanwhile, undergoes one of the fastest transformations I've ever seen on film, from arrogant pig to very likable good guy in no time at all. In fact, he turned out to be such a good guy that parts of this film, where "Toby Walker" was wronged, are difficult to watch.
There's a little humor also thrown in this western, mainly involving "Sitting Bull." It's been a long time since I've seen this film but I would definitely watch it again if it came out on DVD.
Preston Foster's character in here, meanwhile, undergoes one of the fastest transformations I've ever seen on film, from arrogant pig to very likable good guy in no time at all. In fact, he turned out to be such a good guy that parts of this film, where "Toby Walker" was wronged, are difficult to watch.
There's a little humor also thrown in this western, mainly involving "Sitting Bull." It's been a long time since I've seen this film but I would definitely watch it again if it came out on DVD.
More people are more familiar with the stage musical, so if you've seen that version, you'll notice the great similarities between it and this 1935 film. While on tour on Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, young and innocent Barbara Stanwyck gets hooked into a shooting contest with the nation's best, Preston Foster. She gets adopted by the traveling troupe and goes on tour, learning about life and love along the way.
Despite her thick Brooklyn accent, Barbara Stanwyck is totally adorable as the title sharpshooter in Annie Oakley. She's little and packs a punch, which is all that the role requires. It doesn't matter what her accent is-just listen to Ethel Merman! Some of the Wild West show scenes are pretty fun to watch, and it looks like the stunt people had a good time. This version is so similar to the musical, you can actually see the actors pause as they wait for their music cues to start singing! Check this one out if you liked the Betty Hutton version.
Despite her thick Brooklyn accent, Barbara Stanwyck is totally adorable as the title sharpshooter in Annie Oakley. She's little and packs a punch, which is all that the role requires. It doesn't matter what her accent is-just listen to Ethel Merman! Some of the Wild West show scenes are pretty fun to watch, and it looks like the stunt people had a good time. This version is so similar to the musical, you can actually see the actors pause as they wait for their music cues to start singing! Check this one out if you liked the Betty Hutton version.
क्या आपको पता है
- ट्रिवियाReleased less than 10 years after the death of the real Annie Oakley.
- गूफ़In the movie, during the European tour, Annie shoots a cigarette out of the mouth of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany (later to become Germany's Kaiser). There was such an incident, but Annie didn't shoot the cigarette out of Wilhelm's mouth due to the danger but shot it out of his hand instead. During WWI Annie, reminisced that if she could do it over she'd let him put it in his mouth and then miss.
- भाव
Toby Walker: Well dog my cats!
- क्रेज़ी क्रेडिटOpening credits prologue: No fiction is stranger than the actual life of Annie Oakley who came out of a backwoods village half a century ago to astonish the world.
- इसके अलावा अन्य वर्जनAlso available in a computer colorized version.
- कनेक्शनEdited into Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge (1937)
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