Production
It was to be the first of a two-picture deal Charles Marquis Warren had with Republic Pictures. Warren was a leading writer at the time best known for Only the Valiant and he wanted to become a director. The film was called The Black Hills and was to be produced by Joseph Kane and star Rod Cameron. Filming was to start 10 March 1950. [4] [5]
The film eventually shifted to Lippert Pictures. [6] Filming was to have started 7 November 1950. [7] However it was pushed back to February. Lloyd Bridges was the star. [8] [9]
In an interview, Marie Windsor recalled an executive from Lippert Films announced the film had run out of money, with the production having several pages torn out of the script, and the film finished without certain scenes being done. [10]
Critical Assessment
Writing in The Nation , film critic Manny Farber calls Little Big Horn “a tough-minded, unconventional, persuasive look” at the events surrounding Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer's defeat at the hands of the Soiux and Cheyenne under Sitting Bull in 1876. [13]
Farber praises the film for its “unpolished handling of the regular-army soldier…for once, men appear as individuals, rather than types—grousing, ornery, uprooted, complicated individuals, riding off to glory against their will and better judgment; working together as a team in a genuinely loose, efficient, unfriendly American style. [14]
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