Custers Last Stand (serial) - Alchetron, the free social encyclopedia

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 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.

Plot overview

The serial follows multiple plot threads, centering on a Medicine Arrow taken in battle and a secret gold mine, in the lead up to the Battle of Little Big Horn.

Cast

Rex Lease as Kit Cardigan and his father John C. Cardigan

Lona Andre as Belle Meade

William Farnum as James Fitzpatrick

Ruth Mix as Elizabeth Custer

Jack Mulhall as Lieutenant Cook

Nancy Caswell as Barbara Trent

George Chesebro as Lieutenant Frank Roberts

Dorothy Gulliver as Red Fawn

Frank McGlynn Jr. as General George A. Custer

Helen Gibson as Calamity Jane

Josef Swickard as Major Henry Trent, MD

Chief Thundercloud as Young Wolf

Allen Greer as Wild Bill Hickok

High Eagle as Crazy Horse

Howling Wolf as Sitting Bull

Production

Commenting on the plot, Cline notes that this serial contains several historical characters in a purely fictitious setting. "The story rambled through a series of loosely connected plots and sub plots" leading to Little Big Horn.