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Director
  
Francis Ford

Country
  
United States

6.6/10
IMDb

Duration
  

Custers Last Fight movie poster
Language
  
Silent English intertitles

Release date
  
October 4, 1912 (1912-10-04) (United States)

Custers Last Fight (also known as Custers Last Raid) is a 1912 American silent short Western film. It is the first film about George Armstrong Custer and his final stand at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. It was shot in Inceville, Santa Ynez Canyon and Los Angeles, California. The movie was directed by Francis Ford, the older brother of director John Ford; Francis Ford also portrayed Custer in the film.

The film was re-released in 1925 and 1933.

The silent film Custer's Last Fight is the first movie about George Armstrong Custer and his final stand at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Cast

  • Francis Ford as George Armstrong Custer
  • Grace Cunard as Mrs. Custer
  • William Eagle Shirt as Sitting Bull
  • J. Barney Sherry as James McLaughlin
  • Art Acord as a Trooper
  • Ann Little
  • Lillian Christy
  • Charles K. French
  • Snowball as a horse

    • References

    Custers Last Fight Wikipedia
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