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The Plainsman (1936)
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Cecil B. DeMille Director

previously directed The Crusades

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Trivia:

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 Cecil B. 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.

Quote: 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.

Writers
	Courtney Ryley Cooper	Story
	Frank J. Wilstach	Story
	Jeanie Macpherson	Compiler
	Waldemar Young	Screenplay
	Harold Lamb	Screenplay
	Lynn Riggs	Screenplay
	Grover Jones	Writer

Cast
	Gary Cooper	Wild Bill Hickok
	Jean Arthur	''Calamity" Jane Cannary
	James Ellison	Buffalo Bill Cody
	Charles Bickford	John Lattimer
	Helen Burgess	Louisa Cody
	Porter Hall	Jack McCall
	Paul Harvey	Yellow Hand
	Victor Varconi	Painted Horse
	John Miljan	George Armstrong Custer
	Frank McGlynn Sr.	Abraham Lincoln
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General Information Edit

Name	The Plainsman
US Release	Nov. 16, 1936
UK Release
AUS Release
Runtime	114
Language(s)	Add a new language English
Genre(s)	Add a new genre Action Adventure History Biography Western
Theme(s)	Add a new theme old west
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