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Robert Shaw | George Armstrong Custer |
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Mary Ure | Elizabeth Bacon Custer |
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Ty Hardin | Maj. Marcus Reno |
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Jeffrey Hunter | Frederick Benteen |
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Lawrence Tierney | Gen. Philip Sheridan |
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Marc Lawrence | The gold miner |
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Kieron Moore | Chief Dull Knife |
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Robert Ryan |
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Robert Siodmak | Director |
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Irving Lerner | Production |
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Philip Yordan | Production |
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Bernard Gordon | Writer |
With no better offers to be had, famous American Civil War upstart officer George Armstrong Custer takes over the Western Cavalry maintaining the peace in the Dakotas. He soon learns that the U.S. treaties are a sham, that Indian lands are being stolen and every excuse for driving them off their hunting grounds is being encouraged. With his wife Elizabeth (Mary Ure) Custer goes in and out of favor in Washington, while failing to keep wildcatting miners like his own deserting Sergeant Mulligan (Robert Ryan) from running off to prospect for gold in Indian country. After trying to humble the prideful Indian warrior Sitting Bull (Kieron Moore), Custer leads the 7th Cavalry into defeat.
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