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Overview
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Writers:
Wally Kline (original screenplay) and
Æneas MacKenzie (original screenplay)
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Release Date:
1 January 1942 (USA) more
Tagline:
The heroic saga of Custer's Last Stand! more
Plot:
This is the story of General Custer from the time he enters West Point military academy, through the American Civil War... more | full synopsis
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Hollywood history a real 'hoot' of a film more (77 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| 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 | |
| Hattie McDaniel | ... | Callie | |
| G.P. Huntley | ... | Lt. "Queen's Own" Butler (as George P. Huntley Jr.) | |
| Frank Wilcox | ... | Capt. Webb | |
| Joe Sawyer | ... | Sgt. Doolittle (as Joseph Sawyer) |
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Also Known As:
To the Last Man (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
140 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Australia:G | Norway:16 (1947) | Finland:K-8 (1965) | Finland:S (1943) | UK:U | USA:Approved (PCA #7505)
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The filming of the "Last Stand" sequence from this movie involved some 200 horsemen charging around in pretend battle and was so dangerous that one day during filming Anthony Quinn, who played Crazy Horse, arranged as a gag for a hearse to show up at the filming location more
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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. more
Quotes:
George Armstrong Custer:
You may be right about money, Sharp; quite right. But there's one thing to be said for glory.
Ned Sharp:
Yeah? What's that?
George Armstrong Custer:
You can take glory with you when it's your time to go.
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Referenced in Little Big Man (1970) more
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Hail to the Chief more
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This film covers George Armstrong's life ('Auty' to his family and friends) from his induction to West Point to ..... well ...... when he gets the chop.
It is a well researched film where the film makers chose to ignore almost all of the facts .... while referring to them at a 'safe distance' (but nonetheless it manages to include a lot that is 'reasonably' factual), and is played with much humour by the late great Australian actor, Errol Flynn.... until the last scenes, of course.
Its many faults accepted, the scope of the film far exceeds any other depiction of Custer yet made, including some of his Civil War exploits and in part explains why his defeat had the impact on US society at the time, as it did, and has been and still is, the subject of fascination by so many for so long. (But the film sells him short here, glossing over his many remarkable civil war exploits, including the fact that it was Custer's Michigan Cavalry Division which defeated the legendary Confederate General J. E. B. ('Jeb') Stewart, in an engagement in which Stewart was killed. It also does not acknowledge that Custer was a '2**', or Major Gen (at age 23!), depicting him as Brig Gen - or '1*'. And he was not accidentally promoted to General as portrayed - but the hillarious scene in the mess tent when news of his promotion arrives, is by all accounts, true - as apparently is the equally funny first encounter in a saloon with his father-in-law to be.)
As to the film ...... its a 'hoot' .... and correctly captures Custer's 'dashing' personality. While the final battle scene is incorrect (better portrayed in TV's 'Son of the Morning Star') the action is excellent. The poignant scenes with Olivia de Havilland at the end as he departs for his final, fateful journey illustrate the magnificent chemistry between these two actors in the last film in which they played together. (The scene with the pocket watch is correct also .... I have seen the watch at the battlefield museum..) The Garry Owen is a star of the film and is still the marching song of the present day 7th.