The White Buffalo
“Two legendary enemies unite to fight the charging white beast!!”
In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations - dim, filthy, makeshift taverns; freezing, slaughterhouse-like frontier towns and beautifully desolate high country - before improbably teaming up with a young Crazy Horse to pursue the creature.
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Cast
33 people
Charles Bronson
Wild Bill Hickok/James Otis
Known for
Once Upon a Time in the West
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Jack Warden
Charlie Zane
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12 Angry Men
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Will Sampson
Crazy Horse/Worm
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Orca
Kim Novak
Poker Jenny Schermerhorn
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Vertigo
Bell, Book and Candle
Clint Walker
Whistling Jack Kileen
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Small Soldiers
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Stuart Whitman
Winifred Coxy
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Slim Pickens
Abel Pickney
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John Carradine
Amos Briggs
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
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Cara Williams
Cassie Ollinger
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Boomerang!
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Shay Duffin
Tim Brady
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Leprechaun
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Clifford A. Pellow
Pete Holt
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The Hustler
Magnum Force
Douglas Fowley
Amos Bixby
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Singin' in the Rain
From Noon Till Three
J. Lee Thompson Director · Richard Sale Screenplay John Barry Composer
United States release May 1, 1977 · Produced in United States · Production Dino De Laurentiis Company, United Artists Pictures
Production
The De Laurentiis Company
Production
Dino De Laurentiis Company
Production
United Artists Pictures
Studio · Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · May 1, 1977
Theatrical
France
August 24, 1977 · Theatrical
November 19, 2008 · Physical · DVD
August 19, 2021 · Physical · Blu-Ray
Germany
May 12, 1977 · Theatrical
Japan
June 24, 1978 · Theatrical
Russia
March 12, 2009 · Physical · DVD, «Nastroenie Video»
Spain
April 27, 1978 · Theatrical
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