Category: Biography
All Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance, War, Western
Release Year: 1941
Country: USA
Runtime: 140
Rating: 6.5 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Raoul Walsh
Sound: Mono
Taglines:The heroic saga of Custers Last Stand! Scene After Scene Of The Most Exciting Adventure Ever Screened!
Writing by: Wally Kline - (original screenplay) and
Æneas MacKenzie - (original screenplay)
Lenore J. Coffee - (additional dialogue) uncredited
Produced by: Robert Fellows - associate producer
Hal B. Wallis - executive producer
Cast: Errol Flynn - George Armstrong Custer
Olivia de Havilland - Elizabeth Bacon
Arthur Kennedy - Ned Sharp
Charley Grapewin - California Joe
Gene Lockhart - Samuel Bacon, Esq.
Anthony Quinn - Crazy Horse
Stanley Ridges - Maj. Romulus Taipe
John Litel - Gen. Phil Sheridan
Walter Hampden - William Sharp
Sydney Greenstreet - Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott
Regis Toomey - Fitzhugh Lee
Music: Max Steiner
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: This is the story of General Custer from the time he enters West Point military academy, through the American Civil War...
Plot: This is the story of General Custer from the time he enters West Point military academy, through the American Civil War, and finally to his death at Little Big Horn. The battle against Chief Crazy Horse is portrayed as a crooked deal between politicians and a corporation which wants the land Custer gave to the Indians.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
John XII 24: "Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains but a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit."
Goofs: We know about 14 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Factual errors: In the film, Custer is awarded a medal. In reality, he never received any decoration, though he did receive honorary (brevet) promotions for gallantry. The only medal awarded by the government, or the Army, was the newly developed "Medal of Honor", which George Custer never won - though his brother Thomas was one of three soldiers in the Civil War (along with only sixteen others since then) to receive it twice.
Trivia: There are 6 entries in the trivia list - like these:
All Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance, War, Western
Release Year: 1941
Country: USA
Runtime: 140
Rating: 6.5 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Raoul Walsh
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
Writing by: Wally Kline - (original screenplay) and
Æneas MacKenzie - (original screenplay)
Lenore J. Coffee - (additional dialogue) uncredited
Produced by: Robert Fellows - associate producer
Hal B. Wallis - executive producer
Cast: Errol Flynn - George Armstrong Custer
Olivia de Havilland - Elizabeth Bacon
Arthur Kennedy - Ned Sharp
Charley Grapewin - California Joe
Gene Lockhart - Samuel Bacon, Esq.
Anthony Quinn - Crazy Horse
Stanley Ridges - Maj. Romulus Taipe
John Litel - Gen. Phil Sheridan
Walter Hampden - William Sharp
Sydney Greenstreet - Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott
Regis Toomey - Fitzhugh Lee
Music: Max Steiner
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: This is the story of General Custer from the time he enters West Point military academy, through the American Civil War...
Plot: This is the story of General Custer from the time he enters West Point military academy, through the American Civil War, and finally to his death at Little Big Horn. The battle against Chief Crazy Horse is portrayed as a crooked deal between politicians and a corporation which wants the land Custer gave to the Indians.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
John XII 24: "Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains but a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit."
Goofs: We know about 14 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Factual errors: In the film, Custer is awarded a medal. In reality, he never received any decoration, though he did receive honorary (brevet) promotions for gallantry. The only medal awarded by the government, or the Army, was the newly developed "Medal of Honor", which George Custer never won - though his brother Thomas was one of three soldiers in the Civil War (along with only sixteen others since then) to receive it twice.
Trivia: There are 6 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- Jack Budlong died after falling from his horse onto his sword.
- Untrained rider George Murphy was killed when he fell from his horse while drunk.
- Because of a shortage of native Americans in Hollywood, Warner Bros. imported 16 Sioux from the Dakotas.
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