Custer's Last Stand (serial) the same year, the serial was edited into an 84-minute feature film, which was released under the same name. The serial follows multiple plot threads, centering on a "Medicine Arrow" taken in battle and a secret gold mine, in the lead up to the Battle of Little Big Horn. Commenting on the plot, Cline notes that this serial contains several historical characters in a purely fictitious setting. "The story rambled through a series of loosely connected plots and sub plots" leading to Little Big Horn. Custer's Last Stand was well received by action fans, regardless of its historical inaccuracies. Custer's
Last stand due to the pull on popular imagination. Historian Nathaniel Philbrick argues: During World War I, the expression to fight "with one's back to the wall" became a widely-known way to refer to making a last stand. The London "Times" reported on April 13, 1918 that General Douglas Haig ordered British troops that "Every position must be held to the last man...With our backs to the wall...each one of us must fight on to the end". Last stand A last stand is a military situation in which a body of troops holds a defensive position in the face of overwhelming odds.