Pony Express

1953

Action / Drama / History / Romance / Western

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 22% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 22%
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 1629 1.6K

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Plot summary

Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish a mail route that can get mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, in ten days. Along the way they must battle bad weather, hostile Indians and outlaws intent on robbing the mail and shutting down the entire operation.

Director

Jerry Hopper Photo
Jerry Hopper

Top cast

Forrest Tucker Photo
Forrest Tucker as Wild Bill Hickok
Jan Sterling Photo
Jan Sterling as Denny Russell
Chuck Hamilton Photo
Chuck Hamilton as Pemberton Henchman
Howard Joslin Photo
Howard Joslin as Harvey
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
840.7 MB
956*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 2
1.6 GB
1424*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jromanbaker 5 / 10

Saved by Jan Sterling

Rhonda Fleming and Jan Sterling seem an unlikely pair but here they are cast in this mythical Western. I say mythical not as a compliment, but it must have got audiences in to see Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill and Forrest Tucker as Wild Bill Hickok. Both are adequate in the roles but the great ( yes, great and underrated actress ) Jan Sterling does her very best to save this mediocre film. Not as conventionally beautiful as Fleming she takes the actor honours here while Rhonda Fleming lets her. Fleming was utterly wasted in most films, but it is Jan Sterling who overcomes the waste of her talent by sheer force of presence. She has short hair and dresses like a man, and does not succumb to a dress until the approaching end. Surviving in an awful pink dress she looks ridiculous, but like a really committed actor she ignores the change. She could do anything. The cameo role in ' The High and the Mighty ' is an example of standing out above the rest, including Claire Trevor. Watch it and do not care about the plot as it is barely worth describing. But there are lots of Buffalos, lots of ' bad ' Native Americans and of course phallic gunplay between Heston and Tucker. All that was needed in 1953 for the adolescent mind.
Reviewed by sandcrab277 5 / 10

rhonda fleming is the living legend

Rhonda fleming and jan sterling are the only reasons to watch this film .. charlton heston plays his usual cocky self and forrest tucker should have found a better role because he was no wild bill hickock in anyone's wildest imagination ..so so production ... but ms fleming beams
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