The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.

Errol Flynn
as George Armstrong Custer

Olivia de Havilland
as Elizabeth Bacon

Arthur Kennedy
as Ned Sharp

Charley Grapewin
as California Joe

Gene Lockhart
as Samuel Bacon, Esq.

Anthony Quinn
as Crazy Horse

Stanley Ridges
as Maj. Romulus Taipe

John Litel
as Gen. Phil Sheridan

Walter Hampden
as William Sharp

Sydney Greenstreet
as Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott
CinemaSerf
This tale of the rise and fall of the enigmatically charming, if flawed, General George Armstrong Custer has much less to do with American history than it has to do with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland at the box office; so I think it's best we treat this as much more fiction that fact. In that ...