"You want me to think that you don't want me to go down there, but the subtle truth is you really *don't* want me to go down there!"
It was a very entertaining movie, but it promulgated some lies about U.S. soldiers just as early westerns promulgated lies about Indians. I’ve read some books about Custer like “Son Of The Morning Star” by Evan S. Connell and Stephen Ambrose’s “Crazy Horse And Custer” to get a better line on what happened in those days. Neither book glorifies Custer, but he certainly was not the Custer depicted in the movie. And the Indians, contrary to Arthur Hill who made the picture, were not saints. In real life, both sides were guilty of needless massacres.