THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON
D: Raoul Walsh (1941) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy,
Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart, Anthony Quinn,
Sydney Greenstreet, Regis Toomey, Hattie McDaniel
Errol Flynn plays George Armstrong Custer, from West Point to the Little Big Horn. That's pretty good casting, really, and the movie's a lively piece of storybook history, as long as you buy into the storybook without asking too many questions about the history. Custer's legacy is complicated. The last of eight films Flynn and Olivia de Havilland starred in together. Anthony Quinn, already ethnically typecast, plays Crazy Horse.
