That's even worse than They Died with Their Boots On (1941) in which Errol Flynn is Custer.
What the hell was in the zeitgeist?
the scriptwriter didn't want to make Custer or the Natives the villains, so all the racism gets displaced onto some other guy who tries to start a gold rush, and the movie ends with Custer and his troops deliberately walking into the Little Bighorn because...... their getting killed will help the Natives somehow?
I'm starting to remember why I don't watch so many Westerns.
I don't know what was up with Warner Bros. for a year or two there.
Memo to Jack Warner, care of Anachronism: FOR THE LOVE OF HISTORICITY, LEAVE THE WEST ALONE.
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What the hell was in the zeitgeist?
the scriptwriter didn't want to make Custer or the Natives the villains, so all the racism gets displaced onto some other guy who tries to start a gold rush, and the movie ends with Custer and his troops deliberately walking into the Little Bighorn because...... their getting killed will help the Natives somehow?
I'm starting to remember why I don't watch so many Westerns.
I don't know what was up with Warner Bros. for a year or two there.
Memo to Jack Warner, care of Anachronism: FOR THE LOVE OF HISTORICITY, LEAVE THE WEST ALONE.