Talk:Cultural depictions of George Armstrong Custer

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[edit] Clean-up

The "Films" section is very messy, particularly in the lower sections, so I put a clean-up request tag on it. It just needs to be formatted better. Rychach (talk) 20:12, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] No "Major Dundee"

The suggestion keeps appearing on the web that Peckinpah and Heston intended the character of Dundee to be based on or related to Custer - but these suggestions appear in articles utterly without substantiation or sourcing.

This is an extremely dubious claim. Heston and Peckinpah were both great readers, especially fascinated with the history of the western expansion. Considering that there is virtually nothing - I reiterate, nothing - in the character or actions of Amos Dundee that remotely resembles any aspect of the historical (or even the Hollywood) Custer - it is highly unlikely that either of the two would distort any representation so completely, and any such references as this need to be elided until proper substantiation can be provided. Sensei48 (talk) 09:39, 12 April 2008 (UTC)