You know, if you think about it, digging up and retrieving the bodies of dead soldiers would be a pretty grisly task, wouldn't it? But the bigger question I'd have here is 'who would have buried all those dead soldiers to begin with'? Pretty quickly too I might add, since Captain Benson (Randolph Scott) and his men were going out to the battlefield a day after Custer's disastrous defeat at Little Big Horn. Oh well, so much for history.
Like many other Western movie fans on this board, I wasn't too impressed by this picture. I consider myself a Randolph Scott fan but at fifty eight years old he looked like his age was catching up with him. There was no way he would have knocked the tar out of Leo Gordon in a real life dust up, even without the age differential. If you kept a close eye on both of them during their fight, there's a brief moment when Gordon's character Vogel has a fresh looking face when only a second before and after it was sweat and dust covered.
The most interesting element in the story for me had to do with General Custer's 'spirit horse' and how it frightened the Sioux from interfering with Benson's mission. The idea was mentioned early in the story that Custer had two look alike horses, but how Crazy Horse or any of his warriors might have spent time observing what Custer was riding in the heat of battle seemed like a bit of a stretch to me. But it made for a clever gimmick.
With a relatively compact run time of seventy five minutes the movie will likely appeal to most fans of the lead actor but it's no "Ride The High Country". Keeping that in mind you'll probably do OK.
Like many other Western movie fans on this board, I wasn't too impressed by this picture. I consider myself a Randolph Scott fan but at fifty eight years old he looked like his age was catching up with him. There was no way he would have knocked the tar out of Leo Gordon in a real life dust up, even without the age differential. If you kept a close eye on both of them during their fight, there's a brief moment when Gordon's character Vogel has a fresh looking face when only a second before and after it was sweat and dust covered.
The most interesting element in the story for me had to do with General Custer's 'spirit horse' and how it frightened the Sioux from interfering with Benson's mission. The idea was mentioned early in the story that Custer had two look alike horses, but how Crazy Horse or any of his warriors might have spent time observing what Custer was riding in the heat of battle seemed like a bit of a stretch to me. But it made for a clever gimmick.
With a relatively compact run time of seventy five minutes the movie will likely appeal to most fans of the lead actor but it's no "Ride The High Country". Keeping that in mind you'll probably do OK.