Custer of the West is a 1967 American Western film directed by Robert Siodmak. It tells a highly fictionalised version of the life and death of George Armstrong Custer. It was directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Robert Shaw as Custer, Robert Ryan, Ty Hardin, Jeffrey Hunter and Mary Ure. The film was shot entirely in Spain. The plot of the film was very close to that of the 1941 film They Died With Their Boots On, in which Errol Flynn played Custer. With no better offers to be had, famous American Civil War upstart officer George Armstrong Custer takes over the Western Cavalry maintaining... the peace in the Dakotas. He soon learns that the U.S. treaties are a sham, that Indian lands are being stolen and every excuse for driving them off their hunting grounds is being encouraged. With his wife Elizabeth Custer goes in and out of favor in Washington, while failing to keep wildcatting miners like his own deserting Sergeant Mulligan from running off to prospect for gold in Indian country. After trying to humble the prideful Indian warrior Sitting Bull , Custer leads the 7th Cavalry into defeat.
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| Release date: | 1967 |
| Directed by: | Robert Siodmak |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 140 Minutes |
| Producer: | Irving Lerner, Philip Yordan |
| Screenplay by: | Bernard Gordon |
| Genre: | Western, Action, Biography |