Billie, the Buffalo Baby (1956)

★★★★ · Billie, the buffalo baby · feather · 2002-10-14

Given what we know today, about buffalo nation history, and tribal customs, this film clearly shows our niaveness at this time. yes, the buffalo still exist despite our brutal, wanton, wastfull killing. film is in excellent condition, and should be watched.

★★★★ · Uh Huh. · Spuzz · 2003-01-30

Billie, The Buffalo Baby is one of those films that make you ask what the makers were smoking when they made it. We watch Billie, cute little calf, and his first couple of steps to his mother, which is named Molly(?), we also meet April, Meanie, Big King and all the rest of the "clumsy animals"which "don't make good pets" and "have forgotten how fierce they are". A little while we're introduced to April the Horse (really, would I make this up?) who has this MASSIVE gash on it's rump, caused by a buffalo. I mean, do the kids and I need to see the effects of the Buffalo horn? Soon after, we are…

★★★ · You Never Know What They'll Do · Christine Hennig · 2003-10-23

This confusing film has some campy moments. It starts with scenes of Billie, a newborn buffalo calf. The narrator tries hard to get the kids in the audience to bond with Billie, his mother Polly, and his best friend April (I dont know about you, but April just seems like the wrong name for a buffalo). Then it suddenly switches gears and tries to scare the kids by telling them how dangerous buffaloes are, showing a horse with a bloody injury from being gored by a buffalo, and sternly stating, Buffalos are not tame and should not be kept as pets! with the intent, I guess, of…

★★★ · Aw, Look at that Little Dangerous Buffalo · Dodsworth the Cat · 2025-02-18

Narrator George Barclay goes from ridiculous (doing buffalo calls, encouraging baby bull Billie to get up) to some serious intoning as he tells viewers to not trust a buffalo. How many buffaloes the young audience of this film will actually see in person is not clear. We're introduced to Meany the female buffalo, who is "trouble." But even she gets out of the way when King shows up to hog all the molasses in a bucket. Topping the two of them is "Brutus, a mean bull" that gored the rear end of pregnant Starlight (isn't that the name of a horse in another Frith Film?). The guy who owns a…

★★ · Poorly Made · ERD. · 2007-01-06

This film was obviously made for youngsters. It starts out well, but then uses shock value to emphasize the dangers of the animal. Running out of material, this production show a rather lengthy segment about the American Indians' relationship to the buffalo. It never brings up how the buffalo were almost wiped out by humans.