Main Cast: Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland, Marie Windsor, Reed Hadley, Jim Davis
Release Year: 1951
Country: US
Run Time: 88 minutes
Plot
Ninety per cent of Little Big Horn takes place before Custer's Last Stand; thus, the emphasis is on character and suspense rather than spectacle (just as well, since spectacle was well out of the range of parsimonious Lippert Studios). Lloyd Bridges heads a small band of cavalrymen who desperately try to reach the Little Big Horn in time to warn Custer of a Sioux ambush. One by one, the men are picked off by Indian sharpshooters. The only survivors are Bridges and John Ireland, longtime enemies who may very well knock each other off before ever getting to Custer. Little Big Horn was the first directorial assignment for western-writer Charles Marquis Warren. It was hardly the last: Warren would later be one of the most prolific contributors to the Gunsmoke TV series of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Wally Cassell - Pvt. Danny Zecca; Hugh O'Brian - Pvt. Al DeWalt; King Donovan - Pvt. James Corbo; Richard Emory - Pvt. Mitch Shovels; John M. Pickard - Sgt. "Vet" McCloud; Robert Sherwood - Pvt. David Mason; Sheb Wooley - Quince; Larry Stewart - Bugler, Stevie Williams; Rodd Redwing - Cpl. Arika; Gordon Wynne - Pvt. Arndst Hofstetter; Dick Paxton - Pvt. Ralph Hall; Margo Woode - Mrs. Owens
Credit
F. Paul Sylos - Art Director, Charles Marquis Warren - Director, Carl Pierson - Editor, Paul Dunlap - Composer (Music Score), Ernest W. Miller - Cinematographer, Carl Hittleman - Producer, Charles Marquis Warren - Screenwriter, Harold Shumate - Short Story Author
