1956’s The Last Hunt

We are informed at the beginning of The Last Hunt that all of the depictions of buffalo hunting in the film were photographed at the annual “thinning” of the herds in South Dakota. What you immediately realize from watching these “real” takes is that shooting buffalo is easier than shooting fish in a barrel—they’re bigger targets and don’t seem to mind that their fellow bison are dropping dead right next to them.  Since they don’t run away, if you have enough ammo, you c