Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Calamity Jane: What are you smoking? Chalk? Wild Bill Hickok: How do you like your bacon, Bill?
Buffalo Bill Cody: I like my bacon fine.
Wild Bill Hickok: Hey! Your toothpick is on fire!
Wild Bill Hickok: Women and me don`t agree
Calamity Jane: You`re a mule-headed man, Bill Hickok.
Wild Bill Hickok: It`s easier sliding up Niagara Falls than it is to understand a woman.
Wild Bill Hickok: Son, one of these days, you`re going to grow up and you ought to know about women. You see, the thing is this - women are... uh, well, they`re uh... Well, son, I can tell you what an Indian will do to ya, but you never know what a woman will do.
Calamity Jane: Bill Hickok, you ornery son-of-a-mule. You wouldn`t give a bad dime to a sick kid, would you?
Wild Bill Hickok: You might be right, Calamity.
Calamity Jane: No, I ain`t. I know I ain`t worth a bad dime.
Calamity Jane: Tip your hat when you speak to a lady!
Wild Bill Hickok: I will... when I speak to a lady.
Wild Bill Hickok: This is a big country and trails cross... sometimes.
John Lattimer: I`m not armed, Mr. Hickok, I`m not armed!
Wild Bill Hickok: I`ll give you three minutes to fix that. I`ll be waiting outside.
John Lattimer: I`m just leaving town.
Wild Bill Hickok: You`re not leaving town unless dead men can walk.
Wild Bill Hickok: Keep your hands off your guns or there will be more dead men here than this town can afford to bury!
[last lines]
Epilogue: It shall be as it was in the past... Not with dreams, but with strength and with courage... Shall a nation be molded to last.
Wild Bill Hickok: That river clipper is saying good-bye to you, ma`am. Now you`re going to have three long days of this prairie clipper.
Louisa Cody: But tomorrow is Sunday. Do we have to ride on Sunday?
Wild Bill Hickok: Well, there`s no Sunday west of Junction City, no law west of Hayes City and no God west of Carson City.
Louisa Cody: Will, does he kill like that?
Buffalo Bill Cody: Ain`t a corpse-maker like him, honey!
Tony: Hey, why don`t you get a haircut?
Wild Bill Hickok: Short hair makes the Indians mad, and they`re mad enough already.
Wild Bill Hickok: What started you on the warpath, Yellow Hand?
Yellow Hand: Where sun rise, white man`s land. Where sun set, Indian land. White man come, take our land, kill buffalo, our food. White man promise us food. White man lie. Now Cheyenne buy white man thunder stick. Soon war drum sound in all Indian land. All tribes ride with Yellow Hand. We drive white man, like buffalo, away back to rising sun. Yellow Hand has spoken.
Trivia
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
An excellent horseman from his youth in Montana, Cooper did most of his own riding stunts in this film including the shot where he rode "hanging" between two horses.
The script originally had Anthony Quinn`s character entering the campsite with no concern because he thought it was the camp of another Indian. Quinn told DeMille that a real Indian would know the difference between a white man`s camp and that of another Indian`s, and should show caution when entering. When Quinn insisted, DeMille thought about it and agreed that`s how the character ought to react.
Film debut of Hank Worden.
`Anthony Quinn` told Cecil B. DeMille that he spoke fluent Cheyenne. Quinn`s description of the Custer battle is gibberish, but DeMille was impressed.
Paramount executives wanted Wild Bill Hickok to survive the card-game shootout, but Cecil B. DeMille resisted and got his way.
2,000 Indian actors were used as extras for the Custer massacre sequence.
The cavalry sequences were shot with members of the Wyoming National Guard. Two guardsmen were badly hurt during filming of a charge scene.
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