the plainsman be an entertaining western and no doubt a classic and which be actual even today . gary cooper be wild bill hickok and ideal for the role and together with john wayne and james stewart and they be the best actor that play western hero in their generation . jean arthur be great a calamity jane and nobody that i know play it good than her . even if might not be historically accurate and the film manage to capture the most important about hickok and about the time it take place . sometimes you have to sacrifice history to make your point and that be what demille do here . the friendship of hickok with buffalo bill and the selling of rifle to the indian by a great manufacturer to compensate for the loss he would have because of the end of the civil war and custer and little big horn and the uneasy relationship between buffalo bill wife and a religious woman and with hickok a man who have kill plenty and also the unusual love affair between hickok and calamity all this make the plainsman a non conventional and interesting film . anthony quinn have a very short appearance and that already show what a great actor he be go to become . a lot of care be take to show the original gun of that time .