| The Glory Guys | |
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Original film poster by Frank McCarthy |
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| Directed by | Arnold Laven |
| Written by | Sam Peckinpah |
| Starring | Tom Tryon Harve Presnell Senta Berger James Caan Michael Anderson, Jr. |
| Music by | Riz Ortolani |
| Cinematography | James Wong Howe |
| Distributed by | United Artists Levy-Gardner-Laven |
| Release date(s) | 1965 |
The Glory Guys is a 1965 motion picture based on the novel The Dice of God by Hoffman Birney. Filmed by Levy-Gardner-Laven and released by United Artists, it stars Tom Tryon, Harve Presnell, Senta Berger, James Caan, and Michael Anderson, Jr. The film's screenplay was written by Sam Peckinpah long before the 1965 film was made. The director was Arnold Laven. Riz Ortolani composed the score and the title song.
Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a generic war story covering the enlistment, training, and operational deployment of a group of recruits that could take place in any time period.
The large-scale film was made in Durango, Mexico, with large numbers of mounted extras and the final battle scene choreographed on 20,000 acres (81 km2) of land.[1]
The titles were drawn by Joseph Mugnaini for Format Productions. Cover versions of the title song were done by Al Caiola and sung by Frankie Laine.
Tom Tryon ... Capt. Demas Harrod
Harve Presnell ... Scout Sol Rogers
Senta Berger ... Lou Woddard
Michael Anderson Jr. ... Trp. Martin Hale
James Caan ... Trp. Anthony Dugan
Slim Pickens ... Sgt. James Gregory
Erik Holland ... Trp. Clark Gentry
Adam Williams ... Trp. Lucas Crain
Andrew Duggan ... Gen. Frederick McCabe
Peter Breck ... Lt. Bunny Hodges
Laurel Goodwin ... Beth Poole
Jeanne Cooper ... Mrs. Rachael McCabe
Robert McQueeney ... Maj. Oliver Marcus
Wayne Rogers ... Lt. Mike Moran
Michael Forest ... Fred Cushman
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