A daffy 'history' that I absolutely adored, a Boy's Book version of history that is nothin' but fun. Gary Cooper is Wild Bill Hickok, Miss Arthur is his girlfriend, Calamity Jane, James Ellison is Buffalo Bill Cody, and guys play Custer and Lincoln and people like that. Charles Bickford is the creep what's sellin' guns to the Injuns, including Paul Harvey and Anthony Quinn. Wild Bill is tryin' to put a stop to it, and there's no more sense in describing the plot than there is reading the warning label on a bottle of vodka. This is a chance to spend a couple of hours with Legends of the Old West and it's movies like this what made 'em legends in the first place. Million-dollar Dialog, Presidential Style: (Mrs. Lincoln interrupts a Cabinet meeting.) Mr. Lincoln?' Yes, Mary?' We'll be late to the theatre.' Million-dollar Dialog, Frontier Romance Style: Calamity: 'Why didn't ya write me any letters, Bill?' Wild Bill: 'I didn't know that you could read.' Million-dollar Dialog, True Blue Friends in the Old West Style: Wild Bill: 'I can't understand why Custer sent you [to bring me in for trial].' Buffalo Bill: 'He says I'm the only man you wouldn't kill.' Wild Bill: 'Seems to me Custer's takin' a whole lot for granted.' Cecil B. DeMille directed, and it's a huge, fun, sprawling, nonsensical but never-ending series of historical thrills, romance, and adventure. Miss Arthur is gorgeous, and that Cooper feller ain't bad, neither. I love this movie.