Custer's Last Stand (1936)

Custer’s Last Stand: Directed by Elmer Clifton. With Rex Lease, Nancy Caswell, Reed Howes, Frank McGlynn Jr.. A mystical medicine arrow, the key to a lost gold treasure, is lost in one of many Indian attacks. It is recovered by the only two survivors, a Major and his daughter, who become the targets of those who wish to possess it.

“A saloon owner searches for a u0026#39;medicine arrowu0026#39; which he believes is the key to huge wealth. A prime example of what happens when you try to cram a size 18 body into a size 10 article: most everything falls out – and what stays in is a lumpy mess thatu0026#39;s unpleasant to gaze upon. Custeru0026#39;s Last Stand is a 5+ hour serial condensed down to 90 minutes, and the results are predictably shoddy. Custer is a peripheral figure, just one of a large cast whose heydays were either behind them or never to materialise, and his famous Last Stand is little more than half-a-dozen Indians listlessly circling a group of three or four white men. u0026#39;Hopelessly outnumbered,u0026#39; Custer and his men each meet a death of comical hokiness. I have to say one expects better from a movie with character names like Striker Martin, Keen Blade and Kit Cardigan.”