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Custer’s Last Fight
Also known as {Custer’s Last Raid}, {Custer’s Last Stand}
(1912) United States of America
B&W : Three reels
Directed by Thomas H. Ince and Francis Ford

Cast: Francis Ford [General George Armstrong Custer], Grace Cunard [Mrs. Custer], Chief William Eagleshirt [Sitting Bull], J. Barney Sherry [James McLaughlin], Art Acord [an Army trooper], Anna Little (Ann Little), Lillian Christy, Charles K. French, Clayton Monroe Teters [a Sioux warrior; Red Lance], [?] ? [Rain-in-the-Face, a Sioux warrior], [?] ? [Captain Tom Custer], [?] ? [Doctor Honzinger], [?] ? [Mr. Baliran], Snowball the horse

New York Motion Picture Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporaton [101-Bison]. / Produced under the personal supervision of Thomas H. Ince. Scenario by Richard V. Spencer. Cinematography by Ray Smallwood (Ray C. Smallwood). / Released 4 October 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was rereleased in the USA on State Rights basis by Tower Film Corporation in 1919. The film was rereleased in the USA on State Rights basis by W.H. Productions Company and by Gardiner Syndicate in 1920. The film was reedited by Inez A. Ridgeway with new intertitles and rereleased in the USA by Quality Amusement Corporation in 1925. The film was reedited (again) by John Michael Hick and rereleased in the USA by Industrial Pictures in 1933.

Drama: Western.

Survival status: Print exists [1925 rerelease version].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: General George Armstrong Custer - History: USA - Native Americans

Listing updated: 23 July 2024.

References: Film viewing : Fell-History p. 109; Katchmer-Eighty pp. 297, 298-299; Pitts-Hollywood p. 100 : ClasIm-224 p. 42 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.

 
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