Pony Express (1953)
- Directed by
- Jerry Hopper
- Genre
- Western film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 28 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This Western film follows Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok as they work to establish the Pony Express mail service in 1860. They face threats from those who want to stop the mail from reaching California.
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What happens
Pony Express is a 1953 American Western film directed by Jerry Hopper, filmed in Kanab, Utah, and starring Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill, Forrest Tucker as Wild Bill Hickok, Jan Sterling as a Calamity Jane-type character, and Rhonda Fleming. The story is largely based on the 1925 silent film The Pony Express while the threat of a Californian secession is taken from Frontier Pony Express (1939). The film is an historical account of the formation of the Pony Express rapid transcontinental mail delivery in the United States in 1860–1861. Although it gives no credit to the real founders of the Pony Express, Buffalo Bill Cody did ride for them, having signed up when he was 15 years old. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Man from Thunder River (1943)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.