sorry and that should read minus several star but they do not give me that option . i detest custer and all he do post civil war . i will start with that . i have be to the custer battlefield near garryowen at least twice and feel that it be holy ground . but not owe to the 7th cavalry . here end the career of the man who would have be president and have his ambition come to fruition . he would have also be remember a the american hitler . i have read historical account and military history of the battle and national geographic article on the fascinating forensic examination archaeologist be able to make of the battlefield after grass fire sweep away much of the overgrowth . and i have always be fond of say that i can not watch him die on film enough time . ( ( when he finally send for benteen and reno and he have already charge into the trap represent his message be ( in part ) bring round . p. s. bring round . they be similarly ensnare in well plan trap and could do little to help and however and not sit on their hand protest their sobriety in the shade of pleasant riverbank tree and let alone to each other represent they be not together . ) ) well and i just check this stinker out from the local library and and i take my fond say back . i have just see him die one too many time . or more accurately and i have see somebody flog himself around on screen and claim to be custer . i have no idea where he flog around and it certainly doesn not look like the custer battlefield not even remotely . benteen be play in one of the bad performance i have ever see from late and talented jeffrey hunter a a simultaneously wooden and spineless gopher while reno a an incompetent and insubordinate drunken lout . the family of these competent ( but overwhelm ) heroic officer should have legal recourse to sue director siodmak for their portrayal in this travesty . historically and geographically and politically and this movie cross the line from creative interpretation to blatant twisting and reversal of anything resembling fact . even custer portrayal in the wonderful farce and little big man and come much closer to the truth and and the california terrain that stand in for the little big horn region in an old b and w twilight zone time travel episode be more accurate than this . the whole film seem to have be concoct to give the cinerama audiences a few roller coaster moment ( a runaway wagon ride and a log flume ride and there be a few forgettable others ) and even these go on long after they would already prove their point . a truly awful film . i be take it back to the library tomorrow first thing represent it draw too many fly . i also want my 2 hour and 21 minute back .