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6.8/10   69 votes
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Suzanne Clauser (writer)
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Release Date:
6 March 1984 (USA) more
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Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win more
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Yet another of the good TV movies, that surprise more (1 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jane Alexander ... Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Canary)

Frederic Forrest ... Wild Bill Hickok
Ken Kercheval ... Buffalo Bill Cody
Walter Olkewicz ... Will Lull

Talia Balsam ... Jean Irene O'Neill

Walter Scott ... Charlie Burke
David Hemmings ... Captain James O'Neill
Isabell O'Connor ... Nell Bandis (as Isabell Monk)
Jack Murdock ... Reverend Warren

Larry Cedar ... Reverend Sipes
Doug Toby ... Jackie

Laurie O'Brien ... Mamie, Abilene Hooker

Sara Gilbert ... Jean (Age 7) (as Sara Abeles)
Gillian Eaton ... Mrs. Helen O'Neill
Don Hepner ... Barker
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100 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Yet another of the good TV movies, that surprise, 3 August 2002
7/10
Author: Joe Coleman from Miami, USA

Jane Alexander is most of this movie, but all the moviemaking techniques are respectable or better here and Frederick Forrest in a small role is pretty much fine, too. There's also a fat friend (of Jane's) who keeps appearing (Walter Olkewicz?): he also does quite a good job in a not very demanding role.

The script is not always - he says nicely - good, but it often is. And Jane Alexander is more than able to make the best of anything around.

Among other examples of her top of the list acting, it's quite amazing to me how well she showed (physically) a tough, quite masculine (sometimes) character. She got a walk together for the film that has little or no trace of the standard feminine (wherein, as a famous feminist once said, women imitate being feminine!). (Marilyn Monroe being the biggest example?)

And she plays old and washed up beautifully at the end of the film.

A movie that's well worth watching, and maybe even buying?, if you can find a good used version.

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