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.

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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.

Passes the time.

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.