Custer's Last Stand (1936)

Directed by

Elmer Clifton

Genre

Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

5h 28m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This serial follows General Custer and his troops at the Battle of Little Bighorn. It features frontier figures like Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok in the lead-up to the famous last stand.

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What happens

Custer's Last Stand is a 1936 American film serial based on the historical Custer's Last Stand at the Little Bighorn River. It was directed by Elmer Clifton, and starred Rex Lease, William Farnum and Jack Mulhall. It was produced by the Poverty Row studio Stage & Screen Productions, which went bust shortly afterwards as a victim of the Great Depression. This serial stars many famous and popular B-Western actors as well as silent serial star Helen Gibson playing Calamity Jane, Frank McGlynn Jr. as General Custer, and Allen Greer as Wild Bill Hickok. In April of the same year, the serial was edited into an 84-minute feature film, which was released under the same name. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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