An art Western about Wild Bill Hickok, suffering from syphilis, light-sensitive eyesight, and recurrent nightmares, teaming up with Crazy Horse, his sworn enemy, to hunt down a man-killing albino bison (actually a 4000-pound mechanical toy designed by Carlo Rambaldi). Each of them is travelling ashamedly under an alias (Wild Bill's is "James Otis" and Crazy Horse's is "Worm") and seeking self-renewal in a mythic battle with the Moby Dick of the Rockies. Written in a rather charming, stilted poetry by Richard Sale and directed energetically by the usually tired J. Lee Thompson, including an especially good, circuitously choreographed shootout in a smoky saloon. All around, an oddball movie. Starring Charles Bronson, Will Sampson, Jack Warden, Clint Walker, and Kim Novak. (1977) — Duncan Shepherd
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