Buffalo Girls - La légende de Calamity Jane

Not sure how it was presented originally but now, in 2021, I was able to watch it on a single DVD, two 90-minute episodes. In 4:3 picture format. The first one focused on the 1870s with real characters like Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody. The second one contains a lot on the tour Buffalo Bill's Wild West show took through England a few years after.

Through it all the most featured character is Calamity Jane, depicted very well by Anjelica Huston. In the England segment Reba McEntire is very effective as Annie Oakley. All in all a very well presented set of stories about the old west.

My wife watched the first episode with me, I watched both. On DVD from my public library.

A well done TV movie. It was a pleasure to watch with a good script. I enjoyed it so much I rented it on video so I could watch it again. It has good character interaction and the viewer is lead to feel part of the movie.

This movie pulls out the two sides of me. On one hand it is entertaining. On the other hand, it is nearly completely historically inaccurate. Wild Bill, Calamity Jane, Dora Dufran, Buffalo Bill Cody, Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull were all real people. There are some portions of this movie that are as close to historically truthful as they can be. If I am being honest, no one really knows the whole truth about these famous people. My love for stories of the old west and the people in them makes this an entertaining show to me. The acting is very good and the sets interesting if again, looking nothing like the actual Deadwood and Black Hills. If you are going to watch this show, watch it for the love of Westerns and a decent story, not for the history that you can learn. Enjoy it purely for enjoyments sake.

Angelica Houston is marvelous as Calamity Jane as is Melanie Griffith as a real life Brothel owner...Sam Elliott plays Wild Bill Hickcock as a charming rogue. His characterization makes sense when you realize Hickok died a young man and probably didn't have a chance to grow old to maybe find out who he really was... It's an interesting take on the character, but to me the revelatory performances,in this film are Jack Palance and Tracy Walter... I could watch them all day as old men who loved the West and its freedom. You can absolutely feel it when they start to yearn for the old days when Buffalo and Beaver were abundant. Somehow they make me yearn right along with them. Great great actors.

I have seen this several times over the past 20 years and every time it just gets better. The acting is superb and the feeling is thar you are watching a bunch of mates living their extraordinary lives. Very, very good (I am not a western fan)