The Plainsman is another of those action-crammed, spectacular and inaccurate canvases that Mr. De Mille delights to paint and audiences generally are delighted to see.

Cecil B. De Mille has been responsible for some over-decorated period pieces; but in The Plainsman he has directed one of the most sincere and imposing pioneer stories which have ever reached the screen.

It is an elaborate and picturesque production, and with Gary Cooper in the chief role as Bill Hickok the popular conception of the heroic and romantic character of the Wild Western frontiersman is portrayed to a nicety.

Sometimes painfully anachronistic, this Western starring Gary Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok still boats plenty of Old Hollywood action and glamor.