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 to retreat. The historian Bryan Perrett suggests that although the majority of last stands throughout history have seen the defending force overwhelmed, on rare occasions the outnumbered defenders succeed in their desperate endeavours and live to fight another day, and he lists the Battle of Agincourt and the Battle of Rorke's Drift as such engagements. Troops may fight a last stand if they believe that they will be executed if they surrender. In Custer's last stand, at the end of the battle, the extent of the soldiers' resistance to the Native Indian warriors indicated they had few doubts about their