They Died With Their Boots On

Western, Romance, Biography

Errol Flynn	George Armstrong Custer
Charley Grapewin	California Joe
Sydney Greenstreet	Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott
Walter Hampden	William Sharp
Arthur Kennedy	Ned Sharp
John Litel	Gen. Phil Sheridan
Gene Lockhart	Samuel Bacon, Esq.
Anthony Quinn	Crazy Horse
Stanley Ridges	Maj. Romulus Taipe
Olivia de Havilland	Elizabeth Bacon
Robert Osborne (II)
Lincoln Hurst
Rudy Behlmer
Bob Thomas (III)
Hattie McDaniel
Regis Toomey

Director	Raoul Walsh; B. Reeves Eason
Producer	Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; Robert Fellows; Hal B. Wallis
Writer	Aeneas MacKenzie; Wally Kline; Æneas MacKenzie

A flashy and charming West Point cadet seems to slip by with a smile and a roguish attitude in "They Died With Their Boots On." His name is Custer (Errol Flynn). With a deplorable academic and military record, he can still amuse important generals like Winfield Scott (Sydney Greenstreet) and marry Libby (Olivia DeHavilland), a sweet and lovely girl of some importance. Having innumerable qualities of a ne’er-do-well, Custer remains is arrogant and ambitious in his dealings with nearly everyone but his wife. He grows long hair, dresses like a fop, and wants to be the most important general in the Army. After the Civil War, he chooses to help Native Americans find a permanent home, but unsavory elements and villains like Ned Sharp (Arthur Kennedy) double-cross him. He must face an angry Crazy Horse (Anthony Quinn) who has mustered thousands of his followers at Little Big Horn. The result is flashy arrogance meeting death in a crescendo of heroism and violence.