Riding with Buffalo Bill

Name: Riding with Buffalo Bill
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet
Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Released: 1954-11-11
Duration: 4 h 40 min
Rating: 0
Cast: Marshall Reed, Rick Vallin, Jack Ingram, William Fawcett, Gregg Barton

Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet

Action

Adventure

Western

19544h 40m

Overview

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.