The White Buffalo

Among the filmmakers trying to exploit the success of *Jaws* with big‑budget monster films, few were as enthusiastic as the legendary producer Dino de Laurentiis. Following his success with *King Kong*, he tried again with *The White Buffalo*, a 1977 film directed by J. Lee Thompson, resulting in one of the more unusual westerns made during the period. The plot, based on the novel by Richard Sale (who also wrote the…