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词条 Wild Bill Hickok (film)
释义

  1. Plot

  2. Characters

  3. Cast

  4. Marketing

  5. Reception

  6. References

  7. External links

{{Infobox film
| name = Wild Bill Hickok
| image = Wild Bill Hickok lobby card.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Lobby card
| director = Clifford Smith
| producer = Adolph Zukor
William S. Hart
| writer = William S. Hart
J.G. Hawks
| starring = William S. Hart
Ethel Grey Terry
Kathleen O'Connor
James Farley
Jack Gardner
Carl Gerard
William Dyer
| music =
| cinematography = Arthur Reeves
Dwight Warren
| editing =
| studio = Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1923|11|18}}
| runtime = 70 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}Wild Bill Hickok is a 1923 American Western silent film directed by Clifford Smith, and written by William S. Hart and J.G. Hawks. It stars William S. Hart, Ethel Grey Terry, Kathleen O'Connor, James Farley, Jack Gardner, Carl Gerard, and William Dyer. The film was released on November 18, 1923, by Paramount Pictures.[1][2] It was the first film to depict Wyatt Earp, although in a very brief role, and the only film made before he died in 1929 that included his character, until Law and Order was released in 1932.[3][4] A print of the film exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.[3]

Plot

After the America Civil War ends, key military and government leaders meet in Washington D.C. Gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok (William Hart) goes to Dodge City where he hangs up his gun belt and takes over a card table. Local lawmen are unable to rid the town of lawless cowboys. Hickok's arch-enemy and gang leader Jack McQueen (Jim Farley) accuses Hickok of losing his nerve. Hickok visits General Custer and retrieves his sword, taking up his role as a fighter for what is right.

He returns to Dodge City and enlists the help of friends Wyatt Earp, Calamity Jane, Bat Masterson, Doc Holliday, Charlie Bassett, Luke Short and Bill Tilghman to chase the bad guys out of town. Hickcok falls for the wife of George Hamilton (Carl Gerard). Pursued for his crimes, McQueen leaves town and gets away; follows him and kills him. Hickok departs Dodge City in sorrow since the woman he loved was already married.[4]

Characters

William S. Hart, who played Wild Bill Hickok, and Wyatt Earp were best friends. Earp wanted Hart's help to make a movie that would improve what the public thought about him and his brothers. Based on what the press wrote about his actions at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and his job as a referee of the Fitzsimmons vs. Sharkey boxing match, Earp had a dubious reputation.[4] Earp wrote Hart in July 1925: "I am sure that if the story were exploited on the screen by you, it would do much towards setting me right before the public which has always been fed up with lies about me."[8][5]

Bert Lindley playing Wyatt Earp appeared very briefly in a crowd scene.[6]{{rp|259}} This was the first movie that depicted Wyatt Earp, and the only one that included his character before he died in 1929. Hollywood didn't make another film that referenced his character until Law and Order in 1932.[7][8]

Cast

  • William S. Hart as Wild Bill Hickok
  • Ethel Grey Terry as Calamity Jane
  • Kathleen O'Connor as Elaine Hamilton
  • James Farley as Jack McQueen
  • Jack Gardner as Bat Masterson
  • Carl Gerard as Clayton Hamilton
  • William Dyer as Col. Horatio Higginbotham
  • Bert Sprotte as Bob Wright
  • Leo Willis as Joe McCord
  • Naida Carle as Fanny Kate
  • Herschel Mayall as Gambler
  • Bert Lindley as Wyatt Earp

Marketing

The film premiered in New York city on November 18, two weeks before its public release on December 3, 1923.[9]

Despite his very small role, Earp was prominently featured in the promotional copy as "Deputy Sheriff to Bat Masterson of Dodge City, known as one of the three greatest gun-men that ever lived, along with Bat Masterson and 'Wild Bill' Hickok... Back in the days when the West was young and wild, 'Wild Bill' fought and loved and adventured with such famous frontiersmen as Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp."[10] In reality, Earp was a virtually unknown assistant marshal in Dodge City when Wild Bill Hickok was murdered in 1876.[11]

Earp served as a technical adviser on the film.[11] Because the role of Earp's character in the movie is so small, Bert Lindley is not listed on some descriptions of the movie and this portrayal of Earp is often overlooked. Alan Barra, author of Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends, overlooked this movie in his biography.[11]

Hart thought a great deal of Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, and after Masterson's death in 1921, dedicated his next movie, Wild Bill Hickok to Masterson.[8]

Reception

The film was not well received.[9] One reviewer described it as "rather dull and tedious."[12] The film's poor box office draw helped end Hart's already fading star.[10]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/117012/Wild-Bill-Hickok/overview|title=Wild-Bill-Hickok - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com|work=nytimes.com|accessdate=2 February 2015}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=13321|title=Wild Bill Hickok|work=afi.com|accessdate=2 February 2015}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/W/WildBillHickok1923.html|title=Wild Bill Hickok|work=silentera.com|accessdate=2 February 2015}}
4. ^{{cite news|last=Barra|first=Alan|title=Backtalk: When Referee Wyatt Earp Laid Down the Law|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/26/sports/backtalk-when-referee-wyatt-earp-laid-down-the-law.html|accessdate=April 23, 2013|date=November 26, 1995|newspaper=The New York Times}}
5. ^{{cite web|last=Murray|first=Tom G.|title=Wyatt Earp's Letters to Bill Hart|url=http://www.scvhistory.com/scvhistory/hart-earpletters.htm | website=SCVHistory.com|publisher=True West|date=June 1968|accessdate=April 16, 2013}}
6. ^{{cite web|title=Hutton Clears Up Wyatt Earp Movie Actor Provinance|url=http://truewest.ning.com/profiles/blogs/hutton-clears-up-wyatt-earp-movie-actor-provinance|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005013504/http://truewest.ning.com/profiles/blogs/hutton-clears-up-wyatt-earp-movie-actor-provinance | archivedate=October 5, 2013 |date=January 26, 2012|accessdate=May 3, 2013}}
7. ^{{cite web|last1=Chennault|first1=Nicholas|title=Wyatt Earp on Film|url=http://thegreatwesternmovies.com/2014/10/29/wyatt-earp-film/|website=Great Western Movies|accessdate=31 October 2016|date=29 October 2014}}
8. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.truewestmagazine.com/wyatt-earp-in-hollywood/ |title=The untold story of how Wyatt Earp got ripped off by outlaws in the last outlaw town |first=Bob Boze |last1=Bell |publisher=True West|accessdate=November 5, 2015 |date=September 29, 2015}}
9. ^{{cite book|last1=Hornung|first1=Chuck|title=Wyatt Earp's Cow-Boy Campaign: The Bloody Restoration of Law and Order Along the Mexican Border, 1882|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476663449|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gPcWDAAAQBAJ |page=259|accessdate=30 October 2016|language=English|date=2016-04-28}}
10. ^{{cite web|last=Andrew|first=Paul|title=Wyatt Earp's Last Film|url=http://www.truewestmagazine.com/jcontent/history/history/history-features/4585-wyatt-earps-first-film|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120525232832/http://www.truewestmagazine.com/jcontent/history/history/history-features/4585-wyatt-earps-first-film |archivedate=August 25, 2011 |work=True West Magazine|date=May 7, 2012|accessdate=May 3, 2013}}
11. ^{{cite web|last=Barra|first=Alan|title=Mything In Action|url=http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/12.07.95/wildbill-9549.html|publisher=Metroactive|accessdate=May 3, 2013}}
12. ^{{Amg movie|117012|Wild Bill Hickok}}

External links

  • {{IMDb title|0014615|Wild Bill Hickok}}
  • {{allmovie|117012|Synopsis}}
  • {{AFI film|id=13321|title=Wild Bill Hickok}}
  • Lobby cards and still at silenthollywood.com

12 : 1923 films|1920s Western (genre) films|1920s biographical films|American Western (genre) films|American biographical films|American films|English-language films|Paramount Pictures films|American black-and-white films|Films set in California|Cultural depictions of Wyatt Earp|American silent feature films

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