a5c7b9f00b Young Bill Cody wants to be a Pony Express rider, but is too heavy. When one of the riders is shot by Southern sympathizers while delivering vital mail, Cody must ride the route himself. A youthful Buffalo Bill Cody joins the newly-formed Pony Express as a station hand and replaces the regular rider when he is shot by Southern sympathizer. Pony Express Days (1940) <br/><br/>*** (out of 4) <br/><br/>Impressive Technicolor short from Warner features an young George Reeves playing the legendary "Buffalo" Bill Cody. In the film, Cody is turned down as a rider for the Pony Express but soon gets his shot when Indians kill another rider. An important message must get to California about Lincoln being elected President and without this message it could cause the state to pull from the union. Historic accuracies aside, this is a very entertaining little film that makes one wish that shorts still played a part in Hollywood today. Even though Eason directed over one-fifty films, he's probably best known for the stunts in the silent Ben-Hur but he handles the story and action here very well. He does a great job at keeping the film moving fast and the riding scenes are very well done as are the fight sequences. Reeves does a pretty good job in is role delivering a fine performance that allows him to show off his action skills but he also manages a few nice laughs as well. . . . and many of America's current "Red States" would be Native American-run nations, if not for the historical figures portrayed in PONY EXPRESS DAYS (led by a Confederate from GONE WITH THE WIND who saves the Union here as Penance for his earlier career misstep, earning himself a shot at immortality as one of the Screen's earliest SUPERMEN). Scalawags from Texas and Virginia are shown overwhelming the Golden State's legislature in 1860. These Carpetbaggers appear hellbent on bankrolling the Confederacy with the still-gushing Gold Rush, and cultivating the Imperial Valley by transplanting their cotton slaves from the Deep South if Civil War threatens their "Slavery Forever" Ideals. They just need to delay the presidential election results from reaching California for one week in this Pre-Transcontinental Telegraph era. PONY EXPRESS DAYS shows how these future Klansmen corrupted the Native Americans of the West with rifles and whiskey, enticing the latter to slaughter all the Pony Express Breaking News Riders. Only William "Buffalo Bill" Cody (George Reeves) escapes this Gauntlet of Death designed to keep African Americans enslaved forever. As soon as Buffalo Bill gallops up to Civilization with news of Abe Lincoln's victory, California deports the Carpetbaggers. This dooms their Confederate dreams of a Racist Holy Land, but the Native Americans show their outrage over the Slaves being Freed (making it inevitable that there would be NBA basketball on TV today instead of Major League LaCrosse, or MLL) by using their Scalawag rifles to rub out Civil War hero George Armstrong Custer and his men. In retaliation, Buffalo Bill nearly lays low in Extinction their main food source, the Great Buffalo Herd, till he eventually loses track (giving rise to the pop song with the chorus, "Hey, Buffalo Bill, count what you kill, Buffalo Bill . . . ").
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