Rating: NR
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 10/30/2007
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 90 Minutes
Flags: Child Classic
Distributor/Studio: Turner Home Entertainment
This highly fictionalized biopic of legendary sharpshooter
Annie Oakley stars
Barbara Stanwyck as "Little Sure Shot" Annie. Coming down from the hills of Ohio, Annie rises to fame with
Buffalo Bill's (
Moroni Olsen) Wild West Show. Her success as a performer is counterpointed by her stormy romance with fellow performer Toby Foster (
Preston S. Foster), whose reputation as the World's Great Marksman is shot to holes by Annie's accomplishments. Walking out on Annie and the show, Toby loses himself in the streets of New York but is discovered and dragged back by Annie's faithful Indian friend
Sitting Bull (
Chief Thunderbird, whose performance is far from politically correct but undeniably amusing).
Melvyn Douglas co-stars as Annie's manager and would-be boyfriend Jeff Hogarth, while an uncredited
Dick Elliot delivers a hearty performance as press agent
Ned Buntline; others in the cast include such 2-reel comedy favorites as
Charlie Hall and
Harry Bernard, who like director
George Stevens were alumni of the
Hal Roach fun factory. The much-later musical version of the
Annie Oakley story,
Irving Berlin's
Annie Get Your Gun, bears traces of this 1935 film, but not so much as to constitute plagiarism (Coincidentally,
Herbert Fields, one of the writers of
Annie Oakley, collaborated with his sister
Dorothy on the libretto of
Annie Get Your Gun).
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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