Buffalo Girls - La légende de Calamity Jane

This is an amazing movie. The only reason the IMDb rating is 6.7 is because this TV movie is such a secret. A lot of people have never seen it or heard of it. Otherwise, it would garner a solid 8.5 or 9!

This is a 3 hour story that pulls true bits from history into a novel story about Calamity Jane, which she narrates thru letters written to a child she gave up for adoption. Angelica is absolutely convincing as Calamity Jane. Her accent & appearance and heart is fully in every moment of the film, as are the other players - and it is a 100% perfect feat of casting.

There are so much wonderful dialogue & so many quotes throughout the movie - within Calam's narration to the banter of Jim & Bartell to the in-charge Doozie, and the wise observations of No Ears.

It's full of humor and drama, and then there are the most bittersweet moments!

Highly recommended!

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.

I missed it's original release on television. This was a great find in the video store. They should have made it for the big screen. Fun, entertaining and refreshing. Congratulations to the actors and the filmmakers on a making such a wonderful movie. Well done!

Excellent script, it would be good to see this kind of class transposed to very expensive movies, and sorry about this but has anyone considered setting Buffalo Girls in stardate 56/24/17? Will it work? It would be interesting.

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.