
“Eee-Yo!!! Here comes the Glory Guys!”
Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a generic war story covering the enlistment, training, and operational deployment of a group of recruits that could take place in any time period.
Release Date: 7/7/1965
Runtime: 112 minutes
Languages: English
Director: Arnold Laven
00Companies: Levy-Gardner-Laven
Countries: United States of America
CinemaSerf
This is way too long, but maybe the absence of a star to top the billing gives the plot a little more of a chance, and the story is OK. It's a not unfamiliar love triangle type of tale - with soldiers "Harrod" (Tom Tryon) and "Rogers" (Harve Presnell) vying for the affections of the rather fickle "Lou" (Senta Berger) who seems to me quite adept at stringing both men along quite nicely. Once we escape from the rather dull romantic elements, the action sequences as both men have to put their hormonal differences aside and focus on the marauding Sioux start to hot up, and soon we've got a decent amount of whooping and tomahawk throwing as the army and the natives square up for quite a conflagration. It's colourful and entertaining once it gets going and though it offers little new, it is still a well produced and photographed western which with some pruning (almost all of the romance could go for a start) would still make for a decent cavalry story.

Tom Tryon
Capt. Demas Harrod

Harve Presnell
Sol Rogers

Senta Berger
Lou Woddard

Michael Anderson Jr.
Pvt. Martin Hale

James Caan
Pvt. Anthony Dugan

Slim Pickens
Sgt. James Gregory

Erik Holland
Pvt. Clark Gentry

Adam Williams
Pvt. Lucas Crain

Andrew Duggan
Gen. Frederick McCabe
Walter Scott
Lt. Cook

Michael Forest
Fred Cushman
George Ross
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