Custer's Last Stand (serial)
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| Custer's Last Stand | |
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| Directed by | Elmer Clifton |
| Produced by | Louis Weiss |
| Written by | George Arthur Durlam Eddie Granemann William Lively |
| Starring | Rex Lease Lona Andre William Farnum Ruth Mix Jack Mulhall |
| Music by | Hal Chasnoff |
| Cinematography | Bert Longenecker |
| Editing by | George M. Merrick Holbrook N. Todd |
| Distributed by | Stage & Screen Productions |
| Release date(s) |  2 January 1936 3 April 1936 (film) |
| Running time | 15 chapters (328 min) 84 min (film) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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Custer's Last Stand (1936) is an independent film serial based on the historical Custer's Last Stand at the Little Bighorn River.
It was produced by the Poverty Row studio Stage & Screen Productions, which went bust shortly afterwards as a victim of the Great Depression. This serial stars many famous and popular B-Western actors as well as silent serial star Helen Gibson.
In April of the same year it was edited into an 84-minute feature film, which was released under the same name.
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[edit] Plot overview
The serial follows multiple plot threads, centering on a Medicine Arrow taken in battle and a secret gold mine, in the lead up to the Battle of Little Big Horn.
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[edit] Cast
- Rex Lease as Kit Cardigan and his father John C. Cardigan
- Lona Andre as Belle Meade
- William Farnum as James Fitzpatrick
- Ruth Mix as Elizabeth Custer
- Jack Mulhall as Lieutenant Cook
- Nancy Caswell as Barbara Trent
- George Chesebro as Lieutenant Frank Roberts
- Dorothy Gulliver as Red Fawn
- Frank McGlynn Jr. as General George A. Custer
- Helen Gibson as Calamity Jane
- Josef Swickard as Major Henry Trent, MD
- Chief Thundercloud as Young Wolf
- Allen Greer as Wild Bill Hickok
- High Eagle as Crazy Horse
- Howling Wolf as Sitting Bull
[edit] Chapter titles
- Perils of the Plains
- Thundering Hoofs
- Fires of Vengeance
- The Ghost Dancers
- Trapped
- Human Wolves
- Demons of Disaster
- White Treachery
- Circle of Death
- Flaming Arrow
- Warpath
- Firing Squad
- Red Panthers
- Custer's Last Ride
- The Last Stand
[edit] Stunts
- Yakima Canutt
- Ken Cooper
- Carl Mathews
- Mabel Strickland (riding double)
- Wally West
