864

I don't know squat about General Custer, but I know bullshit when I smell it. There's little doubt that this film is 90% romanticized nonsense. Occasionally fun as brainless Hollywood fare, but that's all it is. Shallow archetypes, broad stereotypes, syrupy score, not a shred of nuance. It's a whole bunch of cliché, saved only by Errol Flynn's natural leading man charm. Just another blah effort from Hollywood's mediocrity factory, Raoul Walsh.

i find it highly interesting that someone decided to write a script to make george custer a hero and main character in a two hour and ten minute movie. however silly it may sound, flynn was the absolute best person who could possibly play custer. custer may have been a little inaccurately portrayed as a selfless hero and you already know what's going to happen in the end, but it made a heck of a yarn anyway.

#926

837

Passes the time.

# 763

The film certainly has issues, but there's no denying that it's an excellent mythmaking effort. Even over its long runtime it's almost always engaging and fun to watch.