You won't learn much about the real William Frederick Cody from this conventional and sentimental 20th Century-Fox western, with a stalwart, though rather dull Joel McCrea in the lead. Still, redhead Maureen O'Hara and the striking locations were made for Fox Technicolor (courtesy of the great cameraman Leon Shamroy), though these days you have to take Anthony Quinn and Linda Darnell made-up as Cheyenne Indians with a pinch of salt. Director William A Wellman knows how to keep this film moving, but spends too much time on the romance in Buffalo Bill's life rather than on the building of his Wild West image abroad.

Scout William F. Cody marries a U.S. senator's daughter, fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.