Pony Express (film)

Pony Express
Directed by	Jerry Hopper
Produced by	Nat Holt
Written by	Frank Gruber (story) Charles Marquis Warren (writer)
Starring	Charlton Heston Rhonda Fleming
Cinematography	Ray Rennahan
Editing by	Eda Warren
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	June 15, 1953
Running time	101 mins
Country	United States
Language	English

Pony Express is a 1953 American western film directed by Jerry Hopper and starring Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill, Forrest Tucker as Wild Bill Hickok, Jan Sterling as a Calamity Jane type character and Rhonda Fleming that was filmed in Kanab, Utah. The story is largely based on the 1925 silent film The Pony Express and tells a highly fictionalized account of the formation of the Pony Express rapid transcontinental mail delivery pioneers in 1860’s United States.

Plot

In 1860 Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish a mail route from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California. On the way they battle the weather, hostile Indians and California secessionists intent on shutting the operation down to encourage California to secede from the Union.

Cast

• Charlton Heston as William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
• Rhonda Fleming as Evelyn Hastings
• Forrest Tucker as Wild Bill Hickok
• Jan Sterling as Denny Russell
• Michael Moore as Rance Hastings
• Porter Hall as Jim Bridger
• Richard Shannon as Red Barrett
• Henry Brandon as Joe Cooper
• Stuart Randall as Pemberton
• Lewis Martin as Sergeant Russell
• Pat Hogan as Chief Yellow Hand
• Eric Alden as Miller
• Howard Joslin as Harvey

Production

Charlton Heston did a film tie-in advertisement for Camel cigarettes.

See also

• Pony Express (TV series)

External links

• Pony Express at the Internet Movie Database
• Charlton Heston at the Internet Movie Database
• Rhonda Fleming at the Internet Movie Database