Custer of the West

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Custer of the West
Directed by	Robert Siodmak
Produced by	Irving Lerner Philip Yordan Louis Dolivet
Written by	Bernard Gordon Julian Zimet
Starring	Robert Shaw Jeffrey Hunter Ty Hardin Mary Ure
Music by	Bernardo Segall
Cinematography	Cecilio Paniagua
Editing by	Peter Parasheles Maurice Rootes
Release date(s)	January 24, 1968
Running time	140 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
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Custer of the West was a 1968 Western film about the life and death of George Armstrong Custer.

[edit] Plot Summary

With no better offers to be had, famous 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 Dull Knife (Kieron Moore), Custer leads his 7th Cavalry into the biggest military blunder in U.S. history.