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Western 95 min
IMDb4.4
She made her own rules in a man’s world.
After Wild Bill is killed in a poker game, Calamity Jane must break out of prison and seek revenge. Her quest is hindered by Deadwood's Sheriff Mason, who is out to detain and arrest her.
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**_Serious account of the frontierswoman mixes fact with mythmaking_** I say “serious” because the previous Western about Calamity Jane was the amusing musical with Doris Day from 1953. Yet this isn’t a serious biopic of Martha Jane Canary since it involves glaring mythmaking, as well as the fact that the story focuses on the day Wild Bill Hickok was shot playing poker in Deadwood and the subsequent capture of the killer, Jack McCall, which means we’re talking about a matter of a few days. Jane was rumored to have fronted a mob that aimed to lynch McCall, but the idea that she joined a small posse to track down Bill’s murderer appears to be fiction. Yet it makes for a good story, right? (Which is driven home at the very end of the movie). Another deviation from reality is the semi-wintry setting when, in fact, Hickok was shot and his murderer caught in August 1876. Another dubious element is the idea that Jane and Hickok were a couple, soon to be married. Actually, he married Agnes Thatcher Lake five months before his death, although she was back in Wyoming when he was killed. Hickok possibly met Jane for the first time after she was released from military custody in Fort Laramie (
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