GurlyIamBeach
Instant Favorite.
UnowPriceless
hyped garbage
Console
best movie i've ever seen.
Mandeep Tyson
The acting in this movie is really good.
classicsoncall
You would think that a film with the title "Young Buffalo Bill" would have something to do with it's title character hunting bison on the open plains, or at least doing some scout work and tracking for the Army like the historical Bill Cody did. Instead, this picture's Buffalo Bill (Roy Rogers) teams with sidekick Gabby Hayes to do survey work in the New Mexico Territory. Their assignment is to verify the boundaries of some old Spanish land grants while assigned to Colonel Joseph Calhoun's (Wade Boteler) cavalry unit.All Roy Rogers films have a villain or two to deal with, and this time it's a pair of half brothers, Comanche Chief Akuna (Chief Thundercloud) and Emilio Montez (Trevoe Bardette). Akuna knows the location of a secret gold mine located in the northern section of Don Regas' (Hugh Sothern) huge rancho, so Montez uses blackmail to force the Colonel's son to tamper with the survey of the Regas spread. Roy, that is, Buffalo Bill and Gabby ride to the rescue amid an Indian attack to save the day for Don Regas and his pretty daughter Tonia (Pauline Moore) with the Cavalry joining in to lend a hand.Apparently, Republic Pictures found a winning formula with it's star Roy Rogers portraying historical characters because they produced quite a few of them. 1938's "Billy the Kid Returns" got the ball rolling followed by "Days of Jesse James" a year later. Then there was "Young Bill Hickok" in 1940, and another take on the famous outlaw in "Jesse James at Bay" in 1941. Like you have here, these other pictures had just the most tenuous connection to the real life characters, but they sounded cool, and gave matinée fans another reason to catch Roy and Gabby in action.
FightingWesterner
The titular character (Roy Rogers) and Gabby Hayes assist a military land survey through dangerous Indian territory. When the young surveyor in charge is secretly blackmailed into cheating a Spanish landowner out of a large portion of his property, Roy and Gabby immediately suspect something's up and vow to get to the bottom of the situation, despite an impending Indian uprising.Like most Republic B-westerns and other adventures of the late thirties and early forties, this has great atmosphere, striking visuals, and well-staged action sequences. However, this time around the story is a bit typical. Still, the cinematography, direction by the great Joseph Kane, and the performances by Rogers and Hayes make this worth recommending to fans of the genre.Leading lady Pauline Moore is quite lovely too.
Michael Morrison
Excellent performers with a pretty good script -- except it had NOTHING to do with "Buffalo Bill," and was very anachronistic.Why Hollywood preferred such stupid generic titles is beyond me. Hollywood almost never got its history right, and really should have avoided such a misleading title.ANY name would have been preferable because the whole story was fiction. The film I watched is in a collection, Volume 36 of supposedly more than 40 in The Great American Western series from Echo Bridge Home Entertainment.The quality of the print is generally OK, although some scenes seem to be missing or out of place. And that is inexcusable.All in all, though, I liked and can recommend this.Roy Rogers is, as nearly always, great to watch, and he sings only two songs. His sidekick is Gabby Hayes, also always fun.The rest of the cast is generally not or little known, yet the quality of the acting is high.Hank Bell has a nice part but is uncredited, a real shame. He deserves better.Iron Eyes Cody is in it, according to IMDb, but I didn't see him. He too is uncredited.Chief Thundercloud is the leader of the Comanches, and I think it is one of his largest roles. He is very good with it.Again, I can recommend it, especially to Rogers or Hayes or Western fans generally.Added 22 January 2017: You can watch it at YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEE9MnW6u7Y
Michael O'Keefe
Joseph Kane directs this dusty western with plenty of action, fierce gun battles, Indians and frontier drama. Everyone's favorite cowboy Roy Rogers plays a young Bill Cody aka Buffalo Bill. Ownership of land grants are in dispute leading to full-scale shoot-outs between the good old boys and angry Indians led by Akuna(Chief Thundercloud). Its going to take Bill Cody and saddle pal Gabby Whittaker(Gabby Hayes)plus a US Cavalry regiment to end the fighting. Roy gets to sing a couple of tunes, "Rollin' Down to Santa Fe" and "Blow, Breeze, Blow". Hayes provides a few things to chuckle at. Other players in the cast: Hugh Sothern, Pauline Moore, Julian Rivero and Wade Boteler.
