---
title: 'Pony Express (1953)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jerry Hopper'
released: '1953-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 101
genres:
  - 'Western'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/pony-express-1953'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046198/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Pony Express (1953)

1953 · 101 min · Western · United States


## Synopsis

Pony Express is a 1953 American Western film directed by Jerry Hopper, filmed in Kanab, Utah, and starring Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill, Forrest Tucker as Wild Bill Hickok, Jan Sterling as a Calamity Jane-type character, and Rhonda Fleming. The story is largely based on the 1925 silent film The Pony Express while the threat of a Californian secession is taken from Frontier Pony Express (1939).

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jerry Hopper](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerry-hopper)
- **Screenplay:** [Charles Marquis Warren](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-marquis-warren)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Paul Sawtell](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-sawtell)
- **Director of Photography:** [Ray Rennahan](https://cinepixo.com/people/ray-rennahan)
- **Editor:** [Eda Warren](https://cinepixo.com/people/eda-warren)

## Cast

- [Lewis Martin](https://cinepixo.com/people/lewis-martin)
- [Henry Brandon](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-brandon)
- [Charlton Heston](https://cinepixo.com/people/charlton-heston) as Buffalo Bill
- [Porter Hall](https://cinepixo.com/people/porter-hall)
- [Forrest Tucker](https://cinepixo.com/people/forrest-tucker) as Wild Bill Hickok
- [Rhonda Fleming](https://cinepixo.com/people/rhonda-fleming)
- [Jan Sterling](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-sterling)

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