Annie Oakley

1935
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1h 30m

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Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, and Moroni Olsen in Annie Oakley (1935)

Classical Western Biography Drama Western

A romanticized biography of the famous sharpshooter.A romanticized biography of the famous sharpshooter.A romanticized biography of the famous sharpshooter.

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6.6/10

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Barbara Stanwyck

Annie Oakley

Preston Foster

Toby Walker

Melvyn Douglas

Jeff Hogarth

Moroni Olsen

William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

Pert Kelton

Vera Delmar

Andy Clyde

MacIvor

Chief Thunderbird

Chief Sitting Bull
(as Chief Thunder Bird)

Margaret Armstrong

Mrs. Oakley

Delmar Watson

Wesley Oakley

Adeline Craig

Susan Oakley

Ernie Adams

Wrangler at Buffalo Bill's Show
(uncredited)

Richard Alexander

Crown Prince Wilhelm
(uncredited)

Philip Armenta

Rain-in-the-Face
(uncredited)

Frank Austin

Friend of Lem
(uncredited)

Brooks Benedict

Man in Saloon
(uncredited)

Willie Best

Second Cook
(uncredited)

Stanley Blystone

Shooting Match Judge
(uncredited)

Eddie Borden

Man at Shooting Contest
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Released less than 10 years after the death of the real Annie Oakley.

Goofs
In the movie, during the European tour, Annie shoots a cigarette out of the mouth of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany (later to become Germany's Kaiser). There was such an incident, but Annie didn't shoot the cigarette out of Wilhelm's mouth due to the danger but shot it out of his hand instead. During WWI Annie, reminisced that if she could do it over she'd let him put it in his mouth and then miss.

Quotes
Toby Walker: Well dog my cats!

Crazy credits
Opening credits prologue: No fiction is stranger than the actual life of Annie Oakley who came out of a backwoods village half a century ago to astonish the world.

Alternate versions
Also available in a computer colorized version.

Connections
Edited into Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge (1937)

Soundtracks
The Little Brown Jug
(1869) (uncredited)
Written by Joseph Winner
Played on piano in the saloon

Stanwyck Good Choice For The Role

Barbara Stanwyck, as I have mentioned in other reviews, was a tough woman but a likable one, at least with me. I don't normally go for those tough dames but her voice and personality she brought to a lot of roles always attracted me. A case in point was this movie. I doubt if another actress would have made this a better-than-average film, which Stanwyck did.

Preston Foster's character in here, meanwhile, undergoes one of the fastest transformations I've ever seen on film, from arrogant pig to very likable good guy in no time at all. In fact, he turned out to be such a good guy that parts of this film, where "Toby Walker" was wronged, are difficult to watch.

There's a little humor also thrown in this western, mainly involving "Sitting Bull." It's been a long time since I've seen this film but I would definitely watch it again if it came out on DVD.