Riding with Buffalo Bill

Riding with Buffalo Bill (1954)

Make Way For The Greatest Plainsman In History!

Columbia Pictures elevated a run-of-the-mill B-western supporting player, Marshall Reed, to the title role in this equally run-of-the-mill western serial released in 15 chapters. Like most serials in the '50s, Riding with Buffalo Bill consisted of quite a bit of budget-stretching stock footage telling a highly fictionalized account of Buffalo Bill Cody aiding a group of ranchers in their defeat of a local crime lord. The serial's assistant director, Leonard Katzman, later produced the long-running television series Gunsmoke and Dallas.

Date of release
1954-11-11
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
4h 40m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Western
Director
Spencer Gordon Bennet

Casting

Interesting facts

Riding with Buffalo Bill is a 1954 American Western Serial film directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and starring Marshall Reed.

Production

Riding with Buffalo Bill was the first of producer Sam Katzman's four ultra-low-budget adventure serials, filmed in the twilight of serial production. Most of the action scenes were lifted from older Columbia serials, with new leading men wearing the same costumes to match the old footage.

In late 1953 producer Sam Katzman announced that he was canceling serial production, only to reconsider after a host of exhibitors deluged Katzman with letters of protest. This was front-page news in Variety. Katzman, who had already written off the serials from his budgetary plans, now had to fit them back in, squeezing the time and money tighter than ever.

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