Trailer
Plot summary
The story is a Western that fictionalizes George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment and the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Men join the U.S. Cavalry to serve on the Western frontier. Demas Harrod commands their troop, and Sol Rogers is the scout. The two men fall for the same woman. The story follows the recruits through enlistment, training, and deployment, and could happen in any era.
Cast
- George Rossas Hanavan
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Glory Guys (1965)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Under Arnold Laven's direction, the finished film greatly deviated from Sam Peckinpah's script, with more emphasis on its romantic elements; Peckinpah called it a total disaster because of the casting and said it was one of the reasons he had made up his mind not to write any more.
- The project was originally titled Custer's Last Stand, but when Twentieth Century-Fox announced its own upcoming The Day Custer Fell, later canceled for budgetary reasons, the producers fictionalized the characters and altered the script.
- The climactic battle scene was staged in Durango, Mexico, with thousands of extras spread over 20,000 acres; it took several weeks of preparation and filming, including training many horses to fall on cue.
