They Died With Their Boots On

The first time I watched this film was the 5th of January of 1978. I remember the date because was the same day my youngest sister was baptized. I was exciting because Errol Flynn was my favourite actor. I loved Robin Hood, the Sea Hawk . So I was ready to enjoy another movie. But I ended the afternoon crying because I could not believe he died at the end. Of course being seven years old I had no idea who George Custer was. The only thing important for me was that he died.

Did not expect it to be a Korean version with the holder printed in Korean and Korean subtitles in the movie. This was definately not mentioned in the advert for the film.

Good movie

I love our country and the excellent military establishments that has come along way to being more disciplined than back in Custers days of skull-dabbery and malicious exploits!

Movie was excellent - super good acting considering content of subject matter. Some really COOL facts brought out at end of movie that shed whole new light on true events leading up to such great loss of life over nothing but greed at highest level of government. Any movies with E. F. (in color) are some of best movies available. No need for filthy language when acting is chief means to make script enjoyable. If this one is colorized I would buy it again. Except for B&W this movie is really a 5****.

This went down well and I was forgiven for forgetting fathers day lol. So always a winner in my book. Arrived promplty and in good condition so cannot ask for more than that.

Any genuine history making an appearance in They Died With Their Boots On must be there as an accident. Warner Brothers studio in the late 1930s and early 1940s perfected the art of making historical films that were virtually entirely divorced from the history of the real world that they supposedly portray -- and most of them seemed to star Errol Flynn. They Died With Their Boots On was the last gasp of the old Custer as noble knight mythology that had lingered on since the 10th century (and soon to be replaced by the equally erroneous modern mythology that Custer was a murderous idiot). Almost every historical incident presented in the film is fictional. No, Custer was NOT promoted to general by accident. No, Custer did not attack the Indian camp to save Crooks infantry army (Crook had actually fought the Lakota and Cheyennes a week before Custer, and Crook commanded more cavalry than Custer did). But it is nonetheless great, thrilling fun with excellent character actors in supporting roles (no, Uncle Phil Sheridan did NOT command West Point before the Civil War).

Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland once again show they are great actors.

A very idealistic portrayal of Custer as savior and martyr for the Indian - and for that, an examination of our American filmic past.

Anyone familiar with this film and also the accounts (as best we know them) of Custers last stand at the Little Big Horn already know of its historical inaccuracies. it was the Hollywood version of who was then still regarded as a flamboyant hero of the West. One only needs to view Dustin Hoffmans Little Big Man, made decades later, to have an idea of just how far adulation for George Armstrong Custer had fallen.