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| Warner Bros. | Release Date: January 1, 1942 |
Starring:
Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Errol Flynn, Gene Lockhart, John Litel, Olivia de Havilland, Stanley Ridges, Sydney Greenstreet, Walter Hampden
Summary:
A highly fictionalized account of the life of George Armstrong Custer from his arrival at West Point in 1857 to his death at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876.
Definitely not a documentary. Still, just try not to get a little choked up when Custer, leaving to his death, tells his wife, "Walking through life with you ma'am has been a very gracious thing." [19 Apr 2005, p.E1]
As history, it's mostly bunk. Flynn's Custer is a heroic, high-spirited, Indian-respecting dunderhead prone to plunging into battle without thought and winning the day in spite of overwhelming odds (until, of course, the odds catch up with him). Dramatically, however, it's much more interesting.
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Errol Flynn deifies Gen. George Armstrong Custer in a silly though well-directed biopic. [25 May 2001, p.C1]
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