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We're new cadets, sir.
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You're not cadets, and I'm not
"sir." Pull in your chin!
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Stand at attention when you speak
to a noncommissioned officer!
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- Brown.
- Yes, sergeant.
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March these plebes to the
office for enrollment.
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Yes, sergeant. Detachment,
forward march!
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Keep those heads up!
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Look to your fronts!
Pull in your chin!
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Plebes, halt!
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- New set of generals, captain?
- They're in the Army now, colonel.
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- Fine-looking mess of manhood.
- About face!
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Right face!
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Right face! Keep those heads up.
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Higher!
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Higher!
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Forward and to
double time, march!
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Get those heads up. Pep it up there!
Pep it up!
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Get your heads up!
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- You're pretty fresh for a cadet, Sharp.
- Maybe I can afford to be, sergeant.
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One day, you're gonna
trip up the wrong lad...
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...find yourself on your face.
Your old man's money won't help.
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That's the trouble
with the Army...
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- ...makes no distinctions.
- No.
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You're all alike here.
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We don't say, "Welcome to West Point" and
turn out a guard in honor of any cadet.
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Here's somebody you'll turn out a guard
for. Must be a brigadier general, at least.
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Some foreigner calling
on the commandant.
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Turn out the guard.
General officer.
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- Turn out the guard, general officer!
- Fall in!
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Present arms!
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Order arms!
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Welcome to West Point. May I
direct you to the commandant?
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Yes, if he's the proper
person for me to see.
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I'm Mr. Custer. George Armstrong
Custer of Monroe, Michigan.
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I've been appointed to
the academy as a cadet.
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Welcome to West Point.
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- Nice work, sarge.
- Dismiss the guard!
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- What are you waiting for? Take charge.
- I'll show you to your quarters.
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- Will you follow me?
- What about these hounds?
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Oh, don't worry about them.
They'll follow me.
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Unleash them, boy.
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And here's a dollar
for yourself.
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Thank you, sir.
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Well. I've done four hitches in the U.S.
Cavalry. I thought I'd seen everything.
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But if that isn't the stra...
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You favor cavalier
boots, I see, Mr. Custer.
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That's because I'm
going into the Cavalry.
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An infantryman's no better
than a beast of burden.
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You have definite
ideas, Mr. Custer.
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What made you honor the
Army by choosing it?
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Glory, Mr. Sharp, glory.
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I wanna leave a name behind
the nation will honor.
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There's many more statues for
soldiers than civilians.
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I'm sure you'll fit right
in with the statues...
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...just like part of the horse.
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Well, here we are, Mr. Custer.
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Orderlies haven't moved
Pinchbelly's things yet.
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But don't you worry, Mr. Custer,
we'll fix that right away.
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- Will you give me a hand with this junk?
- Oh, certainly, Mr. Sharp.
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I trust I'm not
inconveniencing anybody.
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Oh, no, no. On the contrary, it's
you who have been inconvenienced.
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Not at all.
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Well, I hope you'll
be comfortable here.
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- As a first-year man, you don't rate a suite.
- No, of course not.
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Well, confidentially,
Mr. Sharp...
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...these quarters are better
than those I'm accustomed to.
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Oh, is that so?
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My, that's a dashing-looking
outfit you're wearing, Mr. Custer.
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Oh, thank you, Mr. Sharp.
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Yes, we've nothing to
compare with it here.
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Haven't you? Had it tailor-made in Monroe.
Wanted the folks to see me in uniform.
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- Did you design it yourself, Mr. Custer?
- No, but if you've a moment...
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- ...I'll show you where I got the idea.
- Oh, certainly.
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Here.
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One of the greatest heroes
who ever lived, Mr. Sharp.
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Murat, the king of cavalrymen.
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He was known as the Thunderbolt,
and his one tactic was:
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Ride to the sound of the guns.
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I must get myself a tiger
skin as soon as possible.
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- Quite a fellow.
- Oh, yes.
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Well, I must be running.
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I'm sorry, we can't make arrangements
for the dogs until tomorrow.
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Oh, think nothing of it. They're
accustomed to sleeping with me anyway.
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Oh, and thanks very much
for your kindness to me.
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Well, Caesar, what do you want? Why,
you know you don't like onions.
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What's the matter with you? Oh,
you want your bones, eh? Come on.
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Come on. Come on.
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Over here. Here, Caesar.
Come on, Hannibal. Come on.
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Here you are. Here. Cleopatra.
There you are.
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Here. There you are.
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Hannibal!
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What the continental
blue blazes is this?!
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- Sorry.
- Sorry?
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- I didn't hear you knock.
- You didn't hear me knock?
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- Anything I can do for you?
- Yes, there is.
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You can tell me what you and your
menagerie are doing in my quarters...
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...why my effects have
been thrown out...
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...from what asylum
you escaped...
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...and how you're here in that comic opera
uniform instead of at a fancy-dress ball.
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Well, sir, explain!
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My name's Custer, Cadet
George Armstrong Custer.
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- I was assigned these quarters.
- You were, were you?
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Well, I'm Major Romulus Taipe,
quartermaster and commandeer of cadets...
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...and this happens
to be my quarters.
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And you're an imbecile.
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Who brought you here?
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Well, who brought you here?
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I asked you a question. Who brought
you here? What's his name?
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- Mudd.
- Mudd?
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There's no such name
at the academy.
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Are you presuming
to trifle with me?
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Well, don't you hear that call?
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It's inspection for new cadets.
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Get out and fall in!
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I don't think your stay will be
very long with us, Mr. Custer.
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I'm recommending you for
a mental examination.
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Get out! Get out!
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Get out, confound it!
Get out of here!
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Get out! Get out of here! Go on!
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New cadets, fall in!
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Get in line.
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Straighten up that rank.
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Prepare for inspection!
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- Adjust your chin strap.
- Yes, sir.
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What kind of sloppiness you call that?
Fix your belt. Take his name.
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See that these men
are instructed...
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...in the proper way to wear their
uniforms. Extra drill, if necessary.
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Yes, sir.
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Eyes front, that man.
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- I said, eyes front!
- That means you, Marshal Murat.
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Well, it's going to take even less time
to get rid of you than I suspected.
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Put this maniac under arrest.
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- Take him before Colonel Sheridan.
- Yes, sir. Right face!
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Forward march!
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Mr. Custer...
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...you are charged with
a very grave offense.
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Didn't you know
striking a superior...
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...is one of the most serious
of military offenses...
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...punishable in some
cases with death?
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Why did you strike Mr. Sharp?
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I'm afraid I can't say.
It was a personal matter.
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There are no personal matters
on the parade ground.
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Have you anything
further to say?
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No, sir.
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Then I have no alternative but
to dismiss you from the academy.
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Dismiss?
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I didn't know you could get fired
from the Army for fighting.
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Well, you know it now.
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- What is your listing, Mr. Custer?
- Listing?
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Yes, listing. It's on the form.
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- The form you signed in the office.
- What form?
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I didn't sign any form. I haven't
been to the adjutant's office.
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Do you mean that you haven't
subscribed to the articles of war?
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No, sir.
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In that case, we certainly
can't fire you from the Army.
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You're not in the Army. You've been lucky.
Let this be a lesson to you.
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- Take him over to the adjutant.
- Yes, sir.
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- I'd like to thank...
- About face!
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- I'd just like to...
- Forward march!
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Thanks anyway, sir.
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You know, Taipe, I'm glad
it turned out this way.
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- There's something about that fellow I like.
- Yeah?
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Well, I don't know what it is.
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You ask me, he'll make the
worst record of any cadet...
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...since Ulysses S. Grant.
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At full charge, a 12-pound shell will
burst into approximately 50 fragments.
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- Mr. Custer!
- Yes, sir.
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You know how many fragments
will a 12-pound shell burst?
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Certainly not less
than two, sir.
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Harold McCord.
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Ronald McKenzie.
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Francis Dupont.
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- Congratulations, Mr. Dupont.
- Thank you, sir.
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Edward Sharp.
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- Good luck.
- Thank you, sir.
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I never thought I'd envy that
toad, graduating ahead of me.
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- I'd certainly like to be in his boots today.
- Why?
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Why?
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Because if Lincoln gets elected there's
gonna be a war. Sharp will be in it.
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Bunkum. It's all talk, Custer.
There'll be no war.
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No? Well, you wait
and see, Rosser.
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I tell you, if Lincoln gets
elected, the South will fight.
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Battalion...
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...ten-hut!
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You are about to hear an order by a
civilian member of the national government.
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Senator Smith.
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Gentlemen, because of a present crisis
in the affairs of the nation...
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...which menaces
armed rebellion...
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...and destruction of the union
established by our fathers...
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...it has been decreed by Congress
that every officer and cadet...
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...shall subscribe his name
to the following oath:
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"I swear to maintain and defend the
sovereignty of the United States...
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...as paramount to all allegiance or fealty
I may owe to any state or territory...
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...so help me God."
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Any officer or cadet who finds himself
unable to comply with its requirements...
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...will fall out to the
right of the battalion.
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Gentlemen of the
South, fall out!
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I see I was not misinformed as to the
preponderance of traitors at West Point.
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It's high time that Congress acted to
clean out this nest of secessionists.
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We don't concern ourselves with
the making of wars here, senator.
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Only the fighting of them.
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The academy leaves each man
to his own sense of honor.
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Gentlemen of the South, fall in!
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United States
Military Academy...
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...close to the left!
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Gentlemen, I am sorry that our comradeship
must end in these unhappy circumstances.
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We have lived as soldiers...
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...and politics have
had no place among us.
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Let us part then
as we have lived:
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In the determination to do our
duty, wherever it may lie.
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- Have we your permission to move off?
- Move off, Captain Fitzhugh Lee.
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Shoulder...
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...arms!
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Bandmaster, sound "Dixie"!
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Company, left...
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...face!
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Battalion...
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...march!
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Eyes left!
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Present arms!
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Forward!
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Frankly, I dislike the idea of
graduating junior classmen.
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Emergency or no emergency, a half-baked
officer is worse than none at all.
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But I couldn't make the
War Department see.
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At least the selection
is left in our hands.
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Let's take them alphabetically.
Who's first?
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- Cadet Percival Anderson.
- Anderson.
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Doesn't seem to have
made much impression.
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Anderson's not the conspicuous type, sir.
But his record speaks for him. No demerits.
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That might mean he's devoted
himself to keeping out of trouble.
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Anderson will be the better
off for another year.
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As a senior, he'd accept
responsibility, make decisions.
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- I know, sir, but...
- Next!
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George Armstrong Custer.
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Well, there's nothing inconspicuous
about him, is there?
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No, sir, nothing.
Nothing at all.
237
00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:30,380
He has no regard for discipline,
organization, nor tactics.
238
00:16:30,557 --> 00:16:32,252
And as for his record...
239
00:16:32,425 --> 00:16:36,361
...George Armstrong Custer has the
lowest marks and the highest demerits...
240
00:16:36,529 --> 00:16:41,432
...of any cadet who ever attended this
academy, including Ulysses S. Grant.
241
00:16:43,136 --> 00:16:45,604
I wonder what happened to Grant.
242
00:16:46,139 --> 00:16:47,401
Well, what about Custer?
243
00:16:47,574 --> 00:16:50,236
He's the best rider and the
best swordsman we have.
244
00:16:50,410 --> 00:16:53,140
He seems endowed with a
singular aggressiveness.
245
00:16:53,313 --> 00:16:58,216
- A singular aggressiveness.
- The type that wins brawls, not battles.
246
00:16:58,385 --> 00:17:01,821
- I tell you, sir, if you...
- What is your opinion of his quality?
247
00:17:01,988 --> 00:17:04,548
A squadron would
follow him to hell.
248
00:17:05,392 --> 00:17:07,656
You're forgetting
yourself, sergeant.
249
00:17:08,428 --> 00:17:12,159
As I was saying, sir, Custer's the
type that wins brawls, not battles.
250
00:17:12,332 --> 00:17:17,167
Right at this very moment, he's doing a
punishment tour for his latest escapade.
251
00:17:23,543 --> 00:17:26,103
Carry that rifle properly
and quicken the pace.
252
00:17:26,513 --> 00:17:29,710
- Why? Nobody's looking.
- Quiet! You're not allowed to talk...
253
00:17:29,883 --> 00:17:31,350
...on punishment tour!
254
00:17:31,518 --> 00:17:32,883
Move on!
255
00:17:49,302 --> 00:17:52,203
I hope you won't think me
bold addressing a stranger...
256
00:17:52,372 --> 00:17:56,399
...but I'm Elizabeth Bacon of
Monroe, and I think I'm lost.
257
00:17:56,576 --> 00:17:59,067
Oh, but I'm speaking to you.
258
00:17:59,245 --> 00:18:01,145
I'm trying to find
Sheridan's house.
259
00:18:01,314 --> 00:18:03,908
My father has business at
the commandant's office.
260
00:18:04,084 --> 00:18:07,576
He thought he'd be a while, so he
told me to find the house myself.
261
00:18:07,754 --> 00:18:10,086
Well, you see how I've found it.
262
00:18:10,256 --> 00:18:13,020
It sounds silly getting lost,
but it's a big place...
263
00:18:13,193 --> 00:18:16,651
...and I've never been here, and
I've forgotten all my directions.
264
00:18:16,830 --> 00:18:19,230
I took that path over
there by the garden...
265
00:18:19,399 --> 00:18:23,802
...and when I got in the middle,
I turned to admire the view...
266
00:18:28,842 --> 00:18:32,300
Really, sir. I've been just as
carefully brought up as you have...
267
00:18:32,479 --> 00:18:34,913
...and I think if I can
speak to a stranger...
268
00:18:35,081 --> 00:18:39,177
...the least you can do is to reply,
particularly when that stranger's a lady.
269
00:18:39,352 --> 00:18:41,843
I've told you who I am
and where I come from...
270
00:18:42,021 --> 00:18:45,684
...and what my father's business is
here, and that, in an emergency...
271
00:18:45,859 --> 00:18:47,588
...should be
introduction enough.
272
00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:53,062
And the least you can do is stand still
when I'm speaking to you. That's better.
273
00:19:01,508 --> 00:19:04,170
I've never been so outrageously
treated in my life!
274
00:19:04,344 --> 00:19:07,040
I thought West Point was
a place for gentlemen!
275
00:19:07,213 --> 00:19:10,046
I thought our Army was the
flower of our country!
276
00:19:10,216 --> 00:19:13,845
I shall tell my father about this.
I shall tell Colonel Sheridan!
277
00:19:14,020 --> 00:19:16,420
Oh, you needn't start back now.
It's too late.
278
00:19:16,589 --> 00:19:19,815
You can rehearse all the
apologies you like,
279
00:19:19,841 --> 00:19:22,678
but I shan't stay here to listen.
Good day.
280
00:19:30,270 --> 00:19:31,669
Mr. Custer.
281
00:19:32,805 --> 00:19:36,332
You're wanted at the commandant's office.
Get there at the double.
282
00:19:36,509 --> 00:19:39,478
- Right. Hang on to this.
- That isn't the right direction!
283
00:19:39,646 --> 00:19:41,136
Oh, yes, it is!
284
00:19:41,314 --> 00:19:43,441
Miss Bacon!
285
00:19:43,616 --> 00:19:45,777
Miss Bacon. Please,
you don't understand.
286
00:19:45,952 --> 00:19:48,546
I couldn't speak to you.
It's against regulations.
287
00:19:48,721 --> 00:19:50,780
Do you understand?
288
00:19:51,424 --> 00:19:53,153
Halt!
289
00:19:55,028 --> 00:19:58,794
If you're looking for Colonel Sheridan's
house, this is the right way.
290
00:19:59,666 --> 00:20:02,134
I'm very sorry if
I seemed rude...
291
00:20:02,302 --> 00:20:05,794
...but while you're walking guard
duty, you're not allowed to talk.
292
00:20:05,972 --> 00:20:09,305
- Well, then why didn't you say so?
- Well, I couldn't speak.
293
00:20:09,709 --> 00:20:14,078
- Oh, you mean you couldn't speak!
- No! I mean, yes! I couldn't.
294
00:20:19,819 --> 00:20:21,719
Well, thank you very much, sir.
295
00:20:21,888 --> 00:20:24,857
And now that I've reached
my destination...
296
00:20:25,391 --> 00:20:26,619
Oh, Miss Bacon?
297
00:20:27,327 --> 00:20:30,819
Please don't go inside yet. There's
something I want to say to you.
298
00:20:30,997 --> 00:20:33,727
See, I'm from Monroe too.
I haven't time to talk.
299
00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:36,596
I'm due at the office. If I
keep Sheridan waiting...
300
00:20:36,769 --> 00:20:38,600
Tell Uncle Phil
you were with me.
301
00:20:38,771 --> 00:20:40,739
- Uncle Phil?
- Colonel Sheridan.
302
00:20:40,907 --> 00:20:42,238
Oh, is he your uncle?
303
00:20:42,408 --> 00:20:45,002
Not exactly, but he and my
father are old friends.
304
00:20:45,178 --> 00:20:48,636
- When I was little, I used to sit on his knee.
- Oh, I see.
305
00:20:48,815 --> 00:20:51,283
I'm certainly glad you
never sat on my knee.
306
00:20:51,451 --> 00:20:54,011
- Sir?
- Oh, I don't mean it that way, Miss Bacon.
307
00:20:54,187 --> 00:20:56,678
If you'd been little enough
to sit on my knee...
308
00:20:56,856 --> 00:20:59,916
...you'd be too old for me now...
I mean I'd be too old now.
309
00:21:01,461 --> 00:21:03,622
Look, Miss Bacon, I
really must go now...
310
00:21:03,796 --> 00:21:07,357
...but do you think if I were to
come past your house around 9:00...
311
00:21:07,533 --> 00:21:10,832
...you might be just sitting
around on the veranda?
312
00:21:11,571 --> 00:21:13,436
Life is full of surprises.
313
00:21:13,606 --> 00:21:18,066
And if I did find you sitting on the porch,
perhaps you and I could go for a walk.
314
00:21:18,611 --> 00:21:22,445
We seem to have been walking
together ever since we've met.
315
00:21:23,249 --> 00:21:26,741
I can't imagine, ma'am, if I may
say so, any pleasanter journey...
316
00:21:26,919 --> 00:21:29,945
...than walking through life
with you beside me, ma'am.
317
00:21:30,123 --> 00:21:32,023
I must go now.
318
00:21:44,737 --> 00:21:46,637
Cadet Custer,
reporting as ordered.
319
00:21:46,806 --> 00:21:49,866
- Have you any idea why I sent for you?
- No, sir.
320
00:21:50,043 --> 00:21:52,511
Do you know that you
have the worst record...
321
00:21:52,679 --> 00:21:55,170
- ...that West Point has had in years?
- Yes, sir.
322
00:21:55,348 --> 00:21:57,248
- Why?
- I don't know, sir.
323
00:21:57,417 --> 00:21:59,214
That's been puzzling me too.
324
00:22:00,286 --> 00:22:05,349
Since you can't answer that, tell me why,
on the eve of your chance to graduate...
325
00:22:05,525 --> 00:22:08,153
...you become involved in
a brawl with a civilian.
326
00:22:08,328 --> 00:22:10,057
- It wasn't a civilian, sir.
- What?
327
00:22:10,229 --> 00:22:12,527
Oh, no. Just a Marine.
328
00:22:12,699 --> 00:22:14,132
Well, Marine or civilian...
329
00:22:14,300 --> 00:22:18,600
...unbecoming for a West Point cadet to
engage in fisticuffs on a public street.
330
00:22:18,771 --> 00:22:21,535
Only extreme provocation
could call for such conduct.
331
00:22:21,708 --> 00:22:25,974
It was. He said he'd been through two
wars and never seen a dead cavalryman.
332
00:22:26,145 --> 00:22:28,579
What? Why...
333
00:22:28,748 --> 00:22:31,410
Well, I trust when he
recovers from your reproof...
334
00:22:31,584 --> 00:22:36,453
...that he'll be taken to the cemetery and
shown the grave of "Lighthorse Harry" Lee.
335
00:22:38,991 --> 00:22:40,253
Mr. Custer...
336
00:22:40,426 --> 00:22:43,361
...I suppose you had hoped
to graduate with your class?
337
00:22:43,529 --> 00:22:46,692
- Yes, sir.
- And if you had, what were your plans?
338
00:22:46,866 --> 00:22:50,302
An assignment to the 2nd Cavalry.
Finest regiment in the Army.
339
00:22:50,470 --> 00:22:54,304
But there won't be any vacancies if
the others beat me to Washington.
340
00:22:54,474 --> 00:22:57,739
In that case, I suggest you
leave on the next train.
341
00:22:57,910 --> 00:23:01,209
- Sir? You mean, I...
- You are the last of the class to graduate.
342
00:23:01,748 --> 00:23:04,740
The others have already
received their diplomas.
343
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,644
- Thank you, sir.
- I trust your future conduct...
344
00:23:08,821 --> 00:23:11,984
...as an officer of the Army
will justify my confidence.
345
00:23:12,158 --> 00:23:13,591
Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.
346
00:23:14,927 --> 00:23:16,155
And now...
347
00:23:16,329 --> 00:23:18,889
- ...that train leaves in an hour.
- Yes, sir.
348
00:23:20,099 --> 00:23:21,657
In an hour, sir?
349
00:23:21,834 --> 00:23:25,429
- I'm afraid I'll have to catch the late train.
- What? Why?
350
00:23:25,938 --> 00:23:27,303
Well, I...
351
00:23:27,473 --> 00:23:31,273
Well, I sent my laundry out yesterday,
and it hasn't come back yet, sir.
352
00:23:31,878 --> 00:23:34,608
You've been running three
years to catch that train.
353
00:23:34,781 --> 00:23:36,715
I suggest that you
keep on running.
354
00:23:36,883 --> 00:23:39,317
- Yes, sir, but...
- With or without your laundry.
355
00:23:39,485 --> 00:23:42,010
Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.
356
00:24:01,474 --> 00:24:03,408
Oh, Father.
357
00:24:04,010 --> 00:24:05,875
Hello, my dear.
358
00:24:06,212 --> 00:24:08,646
Back from your walk already?
359
00:24:11,350 --> 00:24:14,434
What are you doing
sitting here alone?
360
00:24:14,460 --> 00:24:17,610
Such a lovely night. I
didn't want to go in.
361
00:24:18,224 --> 00:24:20,988
Sounds as if you're
falling in love with...
362
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,128
...West Point.
363
00:24:23,296 --> 00:24:24,854
Oh, it's a beautiful place.
364
00:24:25,031 --> 00:24:29,263
Especially when you have a handsome cadet
to show it to you in the moonlight.
365
00:24:30,269 --> 00:24:32,328
I didn't go for my walk.
366
00:24:32,505 --> 00:24:33,802
Why not?
367
00:24:33,973 --> 00:24:36,407
- He didn't come back.
- He didn't come...?
368
00:24:36,576 --> 00:24:38,510
Why, the young scoundrel!
369
00:24:38,678 --> 00:24:42,808
A cadet is supposed to be an officer and
a gentleman. I'll speak to Sheridan.
370
00:24:42,982 --> 00:24:46,281
- The insolent puppy.
- You mustn't talk like that.
371
00:24:46,452 --> 00:24:49,910
- And why not?
- Because he's the man I'm going to marry!
372
00:25:11,711 --> 00:25:15,442
- How does the adjutant general feel?
- He's barking like a fox.
373
00:25:18,885 --> 00:25:22,082
- Any orders for me yet, corporal?
- No, Lieutenant Custer.
374
00:25:25,491 --> 00:25:28,654
I'm sick of hanging around
to see the adjutant general.
375
00:25:28,828 --> 00:25:33,788
I've written him time after time for
an assignment. I don't get any answer.
376
00:25:33,966 --> 00:25:36,230
By Judas, I'm going in
to see him in person.
377
00:25:36,402 --> 00:25:40,429
- He'll see no one except by appointment.
- He won't, eh?
378
00:26:14,607 --> 00:26:16,632
Help! Fire!
379
00:26:16,809 --> 00:26:18,538
Spies!
380
00:26:18,711 --> 00:26:20,406
Sabotage!
381
00:26:20,580 --> 00:26:22,104
What is all this...?
382
00:26:22,281 --> 00:26:25,717
Get the fire brigade! Get water!
Get water, you idiots!
383
00:26:26,686 --> 00:26:28,415
Don't let anybody in or out!
384
00:26:33,292 --> 00:26:35,852
- Well...
- Why, Major Taipe.
385
00:26:36,028 --> 00:26:37,620
I'm very glad to see you, sir.
386
00:26:37,797 --> 00:26:40,561
Would you mind saying a word
to the adjutant general?
387
00:26:40,733 --> 00:26:43,522
I've been waiting
weeks to be assigned...
388
00:26:43,548 --> 00:26:46,458
I have a feeling you're
responsible for this.
389
00:26:46,606 --> 00:26:48,801
But it will serve you
to no purpose...
390
00:26:48,975 --> 00:26:52,206
...because I happen to
be the adjutant general.
391
00:26:52,945 --> 00:26:56,472
I happen to be well aware that
you've been awaiting for orders...
392
00:26:56,649 --> 00:26:58,378
...and you'll
continue to wait...
393
00:26:58,551 --> 00:27:02,112
...until every competent officer
has been assigned to active duty.
394
00:27:02,288 --> 00:27:06,156
And then, Mr. Custer, I may
find a place for you...
395
00:27:06,325 --> 00:27:09,761
...training infantry recruits!
Good day!
396
00:27:13,766 --> 00:27:15,631
Ain't done much with your soup.
Don't like?
397
00:27:15,801 --> 00:27:18,770
- No, it's all right, but you can take it away.
- Yes, sir.
398
00:27:18,938 --> 00:27:22,533
Got something over here that'll
excite your palate, yes, sir.
399
00:27:22,708 --> 00:27:24,539
Creamed onions.
400
00:27:25,978 --> 00:27:27,502
Specialty of the house, sir.
401
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,205
Ever since President
Andrew Jackson's time.
402
00:27:30,383 --> 00:27:31,816
Say, waiter...
403
00:27:31,984 --> 00:27:34,680
...isn't that General Scott,
General Winfield Scott?
404
00:27:34,854 --> 00:27:38,255
- How do you do, Charles?
- Very well. Kind of late today, general.
405
00:27:38,424 --> 00:27:41,018
These are busy times, Charles.
Busy times.
406
00:27:42,028 --> 00:27:44,861
Yes, sir, that's the general.
Commander in chief.
407
00:27:45,031 --> 00:27:48,091
A powerful-eating
gentleman, sir.
408
00:27:48,267 --> 00:27:50,394
Only time for a snack, Charles.
409
00:27:50,569 --> 00:27:54,562
I'll have my hors d'oeuvres, soup, double
rib sirloin, potatoes au gratin...
410
00:27:54,740 --> 00:27:59,177
...asparagus, spiced pears and, of
course, the creamed Bermuda onions.
411
00:27:59,345 --> 00:28:03,509
I'm desolate, general. The last portion
of Bermuda onions just been served.
412
00:28:03,683 --> 00:28:06,117
I'll prepare more myself,
if you'll just wait.
413
00:28:06,285 --> 00:28:08,913
Wait, man? With the Southern
patrol at Manassas?
414
00:28:09,088 --> 00:28:11,420
This is war, Charles, war.
415
00:28:11,590 --> 00:28:14,559
- I'll order the sweet later.
- Yes, sir.
416
00:28:16,629 --> 00:28:18,790
Pardon me, sir. Mr. Custer, sir.
417
00:28:18,964 --> 00:28:23,230
I couldn't help overhearing what you said.
These onions have just been served me.
418
00:28:23,402 --> 00:28:25,749
I'd deem it a pleasure
if you'd accept them.
419
00:28:25,775 --> 00:28:28,330
That's generous, but I
couldn't deprive you.
420
00:28:28,474 --> 00:28:30,999
That is, of all of them.
421
00:28:31,177 --> 00:28:34,078
- Will you lunch with me, Mr. Custer?
- Thank you, sir.
422
00:28:37,450 --> 00:28:38,940
That's a good one, sir.
423
00:28:39,118 --> 00:28:42,610
You mentioned having no appetite.
How do you account for that?
424
00:28:43,589 --> 00:28:46,080
I think I lost it in
the adjutant's office.
425
00:28:46,258 --> 00:28:49,022
Camping around for weeks
waiting for an assignment...
426
00:28:49,195 --> 00:28:53,188
- ...and all the time, the rebels rolling down.
- Indeed.
427
00:28:53,365 --> 00:28:55,333
How did you do at West Point?
428
00:28:55,501 --> 00:28:58,902
Well, sir, first in equitation,
sir, first in swordplay.
429
00:28:59,071 --> 00:29:00,299
And studies?
430
00:29:01,273 --> 00:29:03,833
I was afraid you'd ask that, sir.
Last.
431
00:29:05,511 --> 00:29:09,845
Confidentially, young man, I saw the
West Point examination papers myself.
432
00:29:10,015 --> 00:29:13,712
The only question I could answer
was, "Name the commander in chief...
433
00:29:13,886 --> 00:29:16,184
...of the United States Army."
434
00:29:19,625 --> 00:29:23,561
Mr. Custer, I think you better
walk across the street with me...
435
00:29:23,729 --> 00:29:26,323
...as soon as we've
disposed of the Bermudas.
436
00:29:26,499 --> 00:29:27,830
Right, sir.
437
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,399
What...?
438
00:29:31,070 --> 00:29:35,666
- It's a fatal mistake to steam onions.
- Even when they're sealed in containers?
439
00:29:35,841 --> 00:29:38,332
Under any circumstances.
You steam the best out.
440
00:29:38,511 --> 00:29:41,275
General, you certainly
know your onions.
441
00:29:42,314 --> 00:29:44,612
Hold him here, Jones.
I may need him later.
442
00:29:44,784 --> 00:29:49,244
Mr. Taipe, you're the man we want to see.
Post this officer to the 2nd Cavalry.
443
00:29:49,421 --> 00:29:53,187
I know they have a vacancy. I drew
on them for an aide this morning.
444
00:29:53,359 --> 00:29:56,556
- Yes, sir.
- You have no objections to the 2nd.
445
00:29:56,729 --> 00:29:59,789
If there's a finer regiment,
someone will have to raise it.
446
00:29:59,965 --> 00:30:03,731
- When are you to report?
- Tonight. Second may be going into action.
447
00:30:03,903 --> 00:30:05,700
I can promise you
it will, my boy.
448
00:30:05,871 --> 00:30:09,705
It's impossible for him to report tonight.
There isn't a horse to be had.
449
00:30:09,875 --> 00:30:13,971
If there is no horse, make the order to
report at the officer's first ability.
450
00:30:14,146 --> 00:30:15,943
Very well, sir.
451
00:30:16,115 --> 00:30:19,141
Sorry to disappoint, but
you'll see action soon enough.
452
00:30:19,318 --> 00:30:21,309
- Good luck.
- Thank you, sir.
453
00:30:28,527 --> 00:30:32,827
- This is General Taipe's horse.
- My compliments. And get out of my way!
454
00:30:41,607 --> 00:30:44,041
Custer. Second lieutenant,
reporting for duty.
455
00:30:44,210 --> 00:30:45,871
- Glad to have you.
- Thank you.
456
00:30:46,045 --> 00:30:47,945
- Mr. Custer, gentlemen.
- Hello.
457
00:30:48,113 --> 00:30:50,013
- Pleased to meet you.
- Have a drink.
458
00:30:50,182 --> 00:30:53,743
- Thank you.
- Here's to bloody war and quick promotion.
459
00:30:53,919 --> 00:30:56,854
You bet! A fellow ought to
come out of this a major.
460
00:30:57,022 --> 00:30:59,320
- You're quite an optimist.
- Just feel lucky.
461
00:30:59,491 --> 00:31:02,551
It'll take more than luck
with your grades in tactics.
462
00:31:02,728 --> 00:31:04,696
- Hello, Sharp.
- You know each other?
463
00:31:04,864 --> 00:31:07,355
General Blowhard and I
were at academy together.
464
00:31:07,533 --> 00:31:12,300
Sure, that's right, sir. Now, there's a
face I always like to shake hands with.
465
00:31:12,938 --> 00:31:15,771
Better be circumspect with
your squadron commander.
466
00:31:15,941 --> 00:31:20,537
He had. You may have buffaloed through
West Point, but you'll toe the mark here.
467
00:31:20,813 --> 00:31:22,144
Attention!
468
00:31:22,314 --> 00:31:24,282
All right, gentlemen,
as you were.
469
00:31:24,984 --> 00:31:26,713
Mr. Custer, sir, just reported.
470
00:31:26,886 --> 00:31:29,116
Well, you arrived at
an opportune moment.
471
00:31:29,288 --> 00:31:32,086
We're moving on Manassas
Junction, attacking at 4 a. m.
472
00:31:32,258 --> 00:31:35,022
Four a. M.? Good! We'll have
them on the run by 4 p. m.
473
00:31:35,194 --> 00:31:38,459
I knew as soon as I got down
here, things would start moving.
474
00:31:49,742 --> 00:31:52,233
Come on, men! Forward!
475
00:32:45,331 --> 00:32:47,196
Dismount! Prepare
to fight on foot!
476
00:32:57,376 --> 00:33:01,176
Skirmishes. Guide center.
Forward.
477
00:33:10,089 --> 00:33:12,990
What are you doing, Custer?
Retreat on Centerville.
478
00:33:13,158 --> 00:33:15,183
Holding that bridge until
infantry gets across.
479
00:33:15,361 --> 00:33:19,730
You had your orders. G-Troop.
Prepare to retire.
480
00:33:19,898 --> 00:33:21,559
As you were, G-Troop.
481
00:33:21,734 --> 00:33:24,362
I'm in command, Custer,
as long as I can stand.
482
00:33:24,536 --> 00:33:26,504
That suits me.
483
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,438
Come on, men. Let's
take that bridge.
484
00:33:40,252 --> 00:33:42,243
Ready. Aim. Fire.
485
00:33:50,896 --> 00:33:52,659
Charge.
486
00:34:01,373 --> 00:34:02,863
Fire.
487
00:34:17,790 --> 00:34:19,417
Forward.
488
00:34:26,398 --> 00:34:27,990
Forward.
489
00:34:33,739 --> 00:34:37,903
- Oh, Custer, it's you. Good work.
- General Sheridan. General Sheridan.
490
00:34:38,077 --> 00:34:41,137
- But you're hit, my boy.
- Yeah, I guess I am.
491
00:34:41,313 --> 00:34:46,182
We can't grudge you a couple weeks in the
hospital and chance to go home. Good luck.
492
00:34:48,353 --> 00:34:52,346
- Now this hand.
- Ladies, please, please. Isn't that enough?
493
00:34:52,524 --> 00:34:55,584
Florence Nightingale had 30
nurses to take care of an army.
494
00:34:55,761 --> 00:34:57,524
Takes four of you
to give me a bath.
495
00:34:57,696 --> 00:35:01,154
Lieutenant, we want you to look
your best when you get your medal.
496
00:35:01,333 --> 00:35:04,769
I don't want a medal. I want a
beefsteak and a bottle of bourbon.
497
00:35:04,937 --> 00:35:06,871
Attention.
498
00:35:07,306 --> 00:35:09,001
At ease.
499
00:35:09,775 --> 00:35:13,267
- Hello, Custer. How are you, my boy?
- Oh, terrible, sir, terrible.
500
00:35:13,445 --> 00:35:17,142
I get groomed and curried by these
nice ladies eight hours a day, sir.
501
00:35:17,316 --> 00:35:21,582
That's one of the horrors of war, my boy.
Never mind. You'll be out of here soon.
502
00:35:21,753 --> 00:35:24,950
Mr. Custer, when an officer
disobeys orders in action...
503
00:35:25,124 --> 00:35:27,183
...there can be one
of two consequences:
504
00:35:27,359 --> 00:35:29,327
A firing squad or a medal.
505
00:35:29,495 --> 00:35:33,022
You seem to have drawn the medal.
This time.
506
00:35:34,099 --> 00:35:36,431
Thank you, sir. That
kind of balances me up.
507
00:35:36,602 --> 00:35:40,060
Ounce of lead in my right shoulder,
an ounce of silver on my left.
508
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,572
- Is there anything else you need?
- Yes, there is one thing, sir.
509
00:35:43,742 --> 00:35:45,801
- What's that?
- A letter of introduction.
510
00:35:45,978 --> 00:35:48,446
- To whom?
- To a Mr. Bacon, sir. Of Monroe.
511
00:35:48,614 --> 00:35:52,277
- I understand he's an acquaintance of yours.
- Yes, he is. He...
512
00:35:52,451 --> 00:35:53,748
But you're from Monroe.
513
00:35:53,919 --> 00:35:57,184
- You ought to know Mr. Bacon.
- I'm not from his side of town.
514
00:35:58,290 --> 00:36:00,622
I see. All right, my boy.
515
00:36:00,792 --> 00:36:03,124
- I'll write that letter.
- Thank you, sir.
516
00:36:03,295 --> 00:36:05,923
I don't suppose you
happen to know that...
517
00:36:06,098 --> 00:36:08,896
...Mr. Bacon is the father
of a pretty young woman?
518
00:36:09,067 --> 00:36:10,500
Oh, is that so?
519
00:36:11,270 --> 00:36:13,966
Well, take care of that shoulder.
Good luck, my boy.
520
00:36:14,139 --> 00:36:15,766
Thank you, sir.
521
00:36:17,743 --> 00:36:19,836
Squad, at ease.
522
00:36:20,012 --> 00:36:24,381
Ladies, I owe you a debt of gratitude
that no words of mine can ever repay.
523
00:36:24,550 --> 00:36:27,917
Your ministrations performed a
miracle and hastened my recovery.
524
00:36:28,086 --> 00:36:30,350
Thank you, Lieutenant Custer.
525
00:36:31,490 --> 00:36:33,720
And now, I'm getting up.
526
00:36:34,660 --> 00:36:37,458
- Oh, no. What?
- Lieutenant, you can't. You mustn't.
527
00:36:37,629 --> 00:36:40,291
- Oh, but I can and I must.
- Oh, no.
528
00:36:40,499 --> 00:36:43,900
- You're not well enough.
- Squad, attention.
529
00:36:47,039 --> 00:36:50,805
Ladies, I bid you a fond farewell.
Squad, at ease.
530
00:36:50,976 --> 00:36:54,343
- What are we going to do?
- Lieutenant Custer, come back here.
531
00:37:55,007 --> 00:37:57,601
That's a fine song, sir.
What is it?
532
00:37:58,377 --> 00:38:01,505
A brother cavalier, what?
Butler, sir.
533
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:03,944
"Queen's Own" Butler
they call me.
534
00:38:04,116 --> 00:38:08,416
Late of the 5th Royal Lancers, presently
of the 1st Michigan Cavalry.
535
00:38:08,587 --> 00:38:11,522
- Very happy. Custer, 2nd U.S. Cavalry.
- Custer?
536
00:38:11,690 --> 00:38:14,250
- I say, not the bloke at Bull Run?
- Yeah.
537
00:38:14,426 --> 00:38:16,155
- Won't you sit down, sir?
- Thanks.
538
00:38:16,328 --> 00:38:21,129
Hi there, tapster. Unlimber that old spigot
arm of yours. There are pots to be tossed.
539
00:38:21,300 --> 00:38:23,666
- Won't you join us in a drink?
- No, thanks.
540
00:38:23,835 --> 00:38:26,065
Mustn't have liquor
on my breath today...
541
00:38:26,238 --> 00:38:28,502
...but I'd be glad to buy
you gentlemen a round.
542
00:38:28,674 --> 00:38:31,199
Tell me, how did you
join the 1st Michigan?
543
00:38:31,376 --> 00:38:34,641
Well, I couldn't
spell Connecticut.
544
00:38:34,813 --> 00:38:38,305
It speaks for itself, eh? But,
sir, you asked about the song.
545
00:38:38,483 --> 00:38:40,417
The name is "Garryowen."
546
00:38:40,585 --> 00:38:45,318
And the 5th Royal Lancers rather fancied
it because it goes jolly well on a horse.
547
00:38:47,959 --> 00:38:50,928
- I'd like to learn that song.
- I'm the lad to teach you.
548
00:38:51,463 --> 00:38:53,055
All right, boys, together now.
549
00:39:00,205 --> 00:39:01,866
Oh, good day, Mr. Bacon.
550
00:39:02,074 --> 00:39:03,769
Oh, good day, Mr. Cartwright.
551
00:39:03,942 --> 00:39:08,470
I hardly expected to meet you in this part
of town. I'm down here collecting the rent.
552
00:39:08,647 --> 00:39:12,549
Whenever it falls due, I wish my family
had never acquired the property.
553
00:39:12,718 --> 00:39:16,654
When the lease is up, I intend to see
the new tenant puts it to better use.
554
00:39:16,822 --> 00:39:20,258
That is a consummation
devoutly to be wished.
555
00:39:20,425 --> 00:39:23,553
- It's a blot upon the face of our community.
- Yes, yes.
556
00:39:23,729 --> 00:39:27,028
- Well, good day, Mr. Bacon.
- Good day.
557
00:39:35,107 --> 00:39:36,369
You.
558
00:39:36,541 --> 00:39:39,032
Tell Mr. Sullivan I wish
to see him on business.
559
00:39:39,211 --> 00:39:40,678
Find him yourself. I'm busy.
560
00:39:40,846 --> 00:39:45,442
How dare you address me with such
insolence? I'm here to collect the rent.
561
00:39:50,422 --> 00:39:53,914
- Be quiet, you drunken riffraff.
- Riffraff?
562
00:39:54,092 --> 00:39:56,219
I advise you to be
careful of your words.
563
00:39:56,395 --> 00:39:58,989
I'd advise you to be more
careful of your uniform.
564
00:39:59,164 --> 00:40:01,564
Bringing disgrace on it
with drunken behavior.
565
00:40:01,733 --> 00:40:06,397
What? Drunken? Why, you
fat little pipsqueak.
566
00:40:06,571 --> 00:40:08,004
This gentleman's a soldier.
567
00:40:08,173 --> 00:40:10,423
He stands in battle
and gets shot at so
568
00:40:10,449 --> 00:40:12,897
that sanctimonious little
skinflints like you...
569
00:40:13,044 --> 00:40:15,774
...can run around in safety
doing business as usual.
570
00:40:15,947 --> 00:40:20,441
And if he wants to get drunk while he's
on leave, what business is it of yours?
571
00:40:20,619 --> 00:40:24,385
Hear, hear. That's telling the old
blighter where he gets off, eh, what?
572
00:40:24,556 --> 00:40:27,320
If you don't like our
society, why barge in on it?
573
00:40:27,492 --> 00:40:32,828
I'm here because I prefer to collect the
rent of this establishment personally...
574
00:40:32,998 --> 00:40:38,026
...rather than expose my clerks to such
an atmosphere of degrading debauchery.
575
00:40:39,738 --> 00:40:43,469
Degrading debauchery? The
chap's quite an orator, what?
576
00:40:43,675 --> 00:40:47,111
Your conduct is only what I
would expect from a foreigner.
577
00:40:47,279 --> 00:40:51,340
But as for you, sir, you're a
disgrace to the Union Army.
578
00:40:52,017 --> 00:40:53,712
Drum him out, Queen's Own.
579
00:41:09,134 --> 00:41:13,230
- Do I have to drink the tea every time?
- If you want the fortune to come true.
580
00:41:15,574 --> 00:41:18,805
That's the fourth time today
I done read the tea leaves.
581
00:41:18,977 --> 00:41:23,175
You keep drinking tea like that, and you's
going to turn as yellow as a canary.
582
00:41:25,984 --> 00:41:27,679
Onions.
583
00:41:29,521 --> 00:41:34,925
One. Two. Three.
584
00:41:35,093 --> 00:41:37,687
There. I made my wish.
585
00:41:37,863 --> 00:41:41,492
You going to get that wish all
wore out before it comes true.
586
00:41:41,766 --> 00:41:45,218
Here we is, you and me, asking
our fortune from the tea.
587
00:41:45,244 --> 00:41:47,024
Look in the cup and I'll see...
588
00:41:47,172 --> 00:41:49,003
...what I see.
589
00:41:49,174 --> 00:41:53,008
Now, now, what's this I see?
590
00:41:53,178 --> 00:41:57,808
What's this? Appears to
be like a bird. Yes.
591
00:41:57,983 --> 00:42:01,282
Here's his wings spreading out.
He's flying this way.
592
00:42:01,453 --> 00:42:04,684
Oh, yes, Callie, I can see it's
a bird, but what does it mean?
593
00:42:04,856 --> 00:42:07,450
- It's a message coming straight to you.
- From him?
594
00:42:07,626 --> 00:42:10,857
Give me time, Miss
Libby, give me time.
595
00:42:11,830 --> 00:42:14,958
What's that tall and straight
walking beside the bird?
596
00:42:15,133 --> 00:42:17,761
- Oh, let me see.
- Don't touch it, Miss Libby.
597
00:42:17,936 --> 00:42:20,336
You'll spoil the spell.
598
00:42:20,605 --> 00:42:22,869
Why, I declare, it's a man.
599
00:42:23,041 --> 00:42:27,501
Now, what's he doing? He's pulling
on something with his left hand.
600
00:42:27,679 --> 00:42:30,671
- Now, what can that be?
- A horse. He's in the Cavalry.
601
00:42:30,849 --> 00:42:35,252
No, it ain't a horse. Ain't a gun.
It's, it's...
602
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,546
- No, it ain't a sword, neither.
- Oh, Callie.
603
00:42:38,723 --> 00:42:40,486
- I's got it, I's got it!
- What?
604
00:42:40,659 --> 00:42:42,524
It's a doorbell.
605
00:42:47,699 --> 00:42:51,066
- Somebody's got to answer the door.
- And that somebody ain't me.
606
00:42:51,236 --> 00:42:55,195
- That's magic, that bell.
- Oh, nonsense, Callie. It's all right.
607
00:42:55,373 --> 00:42:57,603
Go on, Callie, answer it.
608
00:42:57,776 --> 00:43:02,509
- Go on. It's all right.
- Oh, feet, keep me from slipping down.
609
00:43:02,681 --> 00:43:04,808
Get my rabbit's foot.
610
00:43:06,818 --> 00:43:10,413
Brother rabbit, work your charm
Keep this child away from harm
611
00:43:10,589 --> 00:43:15,117
Ain't got time to kneel and pray
Don't you let me down today
612
00:43:23,735 --> 00:43:26,260
Here he is, Miss
Libby, here he is.
613
00:43:28,106 --> 00:43:31,405
Just like the dead riding
up and saying howdy.
614
00:43:33,511 --> 00:43:35,206
What's the matter, Miss Libby?
615
00:43:35,380 --> 00:43:39,373
You got your wish, and you're standing
like your feet is glued in molasses.
616
00:43:39,551 --> 00:43:40,779
Please, Callie.
617
00:43:40,952 --> 00:43:45,719
- This gentleman, Mr...? Mr...?
- Why, Custer, ma'am.
618
00:43:45,890 --> 00:43:48,450
Mr. Custer hasn't stated
what he's here for.
619
00:43:49,327 --> 00:43:52,319
I have a letter to your
father from General Sheridan.
620
00:43:52,497 --> 00:43:55,295
- My father will be home soon.
- And an apology for you.
621
00:43:55,467 --> 00:43:57,731
- Isn't it a little late?
- A little late?
622
00:43:57,902 --> 00:44:00,996
Three o'clock on a
bright, shiny afternoon?
623
00:44:01,172 --> 00:44:03,037
Don't get uppity, Miss Libby.
624
00:44:03,208 --> 00:44:06,473
Because the tea leaves never
forgets and they never forgive.
625
00:44:06,645 --> 00:44:10,479
If you'd care to wait for my father,
I'll show you into the drawing room.
626
00:44:16,388 --> 00:44:20,051
But, Miss Bacon. It was
really you I came to see.
627
00:44:20,225 --> 00:44:22,989
- But why?
- Because, ma'am...
628
00:44:23,161 --> 00:44:26,927
...I can't imagine anything worse than
walking through life without you.
629
00:44:27,098 --> 00:44:31,501
Don't propose you come strolling by at 9:00
and find me sitting on the porch again.
630
00:44:31,670 --> 00:44:34,867
I'm sorry. Won't you forgive me?
It really wasn't my fault.
631
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,032
I'm not really angry. I just
thought I should pretend to be.
632
00:44:38,209 --> 00:44:40,769
I knew you when you didn't
come back you had good reason.
633
00:44:40,945 --> 00:44:44,676
Yes. I had to report to Washington,
barely had time to catch the train.
634
00:44:44,849 --> 00:44:47,909
And a train won't wait,
but a woman will.
635
00:44:48,086 --> 00:44:52,113
Thank you, ma'am. I was
hoping you'd say that, ma'am.
636
00:44:52,424 --> 00:44:55,450
Tell me, have you always
lived in this big house?
637
00:44:55,627 --> 00:44:58,425
- Yes. Why?
- Oh, nothing, except I remember it well.
638
00:44:58,596 --> 00:45:01,997
I'd ride by when I was a little
fellow on my way to go swimming.
639
00:45:02,167 --> 00:45:05,227
There was a sassy brat who
used to hang on the gate...
640
00:45:05,403 --> 00:45:08,736
...and stick her tongue out. I
pulled her pigtails for her once.
641
00:45:08,907 --> 00:45:11,239
Was it you who
pulled my pigtails?
642
00:45:11,409 --> 00:45:13,536
Was it you who owned them?
643
00:45:14,913 --> 00:45:16,608
- Oh, dear.
- What is it?
644
00:45:16,781 --> 00:45:19,944
I don't see how I can smell
onions from the kitchen but...
645
00:45:20,118 --> 00:45:26,057
Onions? Onions? That's funny. I don't
smell them. Don't you like onions?
646
00:45:26,224 --> 00:45:31,127
Oh, I love them. I just thought
that maybe you didn't like them.
647
00:45:31,296 --> 00:45:33,764
Oh, no. No, I'm
very fond of them.
648
00:45:34,032 --> 00:45:36,364
Callie, will you go to
the kitchen, please...
649
00:45:36,534 --> 00:45:39,469
...and bring us back some of
those green spring onions?
650
00:45:40,805 --> 00:45:44,969
- Onions?
- Yes, Callie, onions. You know I love them.
651
00:45:45,877 --> 00:45:48,971
I knows what you love, honey.
It ain't onions.
652
00:45:52,984 --> 00:45:55,885
Pardon me. I didn't mean
to touch your hand.
653
00:45:59,557 --> 00:46:02,685
It's a pleasure to find somebody
who appreciates onions.
654
00:46:02,861 --> 00:46:07,059
I was reading how Marshal Murat used to
demolish a whole plateful for breakfast.
655
00:46:07,232 --> 00:46:10,201
Please, don't take that one.
Here's a better one for you.
656
00:46:10,368 --> 00:46:12,859
See the fine, long
grain in that one?
657
00:46:13,037 --> 00:46:15,972
Good smell to it too. Try it.
That'll have a bite to it.
658
00:46:16,141 --> 00:46:18,803
I said to the general,
"All I want is two things.
659
00:46:18,977 --> 00:46:22,276
A week's leave and a letter of
introduction to your father."
660
00:46:22,947 --> 00:46:24,574
Now...
661
00:46:24,983 --> 00:46:29,682
...when you see Father, all
you have to do is say to him:
662
00:46:29,854 --> 00:46:33,813
"May I return and call on Libby?" No,
you better say "Miss Bacon" first.
663
00:46:33,992 --> 00:46:36,722
- Yes, that'd be better.
- Don't be afraid of him.
664
00:46:36,895 --> 00:46:40,126
Afraid? You're talking
to a soldier, ma'am.
665
00:46:42,233 --> 00:46:45,669
- Why, you's back early, Mr. Bacon.
- Yes, I am.
666
00:46:46,304 --> 00:46:48,704
Oh, here comes Father now.
667
00:46:52,076 --> 00:46:56,103
He's really a darling, though he
looks severe, so just speak up.
668
00:46:56,281 --> 00:46:58,010
I will, ma'am.
669
00:46:58,683 --> 00:47:01,743
- Father, dear, I'm so glad to see you.
- My dear.
670
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:04,514
- I want you to meet Lieutenant Custer.
- Custer?
671
00:47:04,689 --> 00:47:10,059
- Yes. He has a letter from Phil Sheridan.
- General Sheridan. This must be important.
672
00:47:32,116 --> 00:47:36,075
- How did this fellow get into my house?
- He has a letter from Uncle Phil.
673
00:47:36,254 --> 00:47:38,848
So I'm a fat little
pipsqueak, am I?
674
00:47:39,023 --> 00:47:41,924
- I'm a sanctimonious old skinflint, am I?
- But, Father...
675
00:47:42,093 --> 00:47:44,960
Hold your tongue. How dare you
come from that den of iniquity...
676
00:47:45,129 --> 00:47:47,825
...that haunt of debauchery,
to pollute my home?
677
00:47:47,999 --> 00:47:50,493
Sorry, but if you'll
allow me to explain...
678
00:47:50,519 --> 00:47:52,620
There's no explanation
for your conduct.
679
00:47:52,770 --> 00:47:56,638
- None that's fit for her ears.
- Sir, I have a letter of introduction...
680
00:47:56,808 --> 00:47:59,868
- ...from General Sheridan...
- A letter from the president...
681
00:48:00,044 --> 00:48:03,411
...would be equally offensive.
Get out of my house.
682
00:48:03,581 --> 00:48:07,039
- Go on.
- I'll show him out, Mr. Bacon.
683
00:48:07,218 --> 00:48:09,186
Right this way, and
good riddance.
684
00:48:09,354 --> 00:48:13,120
The idea of you aggravating
quality folks like them.
685
00:48:13,291 --> 00:48:17,125
Mr. Bacon done ordered you out,
and out you going right now, sir.
686
00:48:18,263 --> 00:48:24,099
But not for good. You is coming back.
Nine o'clock at the gate.
687
00:48:25,837 --> 00:48:30,968
Brother rabbit, work your charm
And keep that big boy out of harm
688
00:48:41,152 --> 00:48:42,642
Libby.
689
00:48:45,790 --> 00:48:48,190
It ain't unless
you's colorblind.
690
00:48:48,826 --> 00:48:50,987
Where is she? I
thought you said...
691
00:48:51,729 --> 00:48:54,391
Her papa's home with his
special kicking-out boots.
692
00:48:54,565 --> 00:48:57,966
- Miss Libby's locked in her room. Come on.
- That ugly old fossil.
693
00:48:58,136 --> 00:48:59,626
He can't do that to her.
694
00:48:59,804 --> 00:49:03,934
That's what she said as he turned that
lock. They had a difference of opinion.
695
00:49:04,108 --> 00:49:07,566
Now she's upstairs with her opinion,
and he's downstairs with his.
696
00:49:07,745 --> 00:49:09,770
- Can you climb?
- Up there? Sure.
697
00:49:09,948 --> 00:49:12,746
Wait a minute. I don't want
to cause her more trouble.
698
00:49:12,917 --> 00:49:15,545
We better arrange a signal
in case he comes out.
699
00:49:15,720 --> 00:49:17,779
- I can hoot like an owl.
- You can?
700
00:49:18,990 --> 00:49:20,218
Oh, that's fine.
701
00:49:21,492 --> 00:49:24,154
- George.
- Libby.
702
00:49:46,484 --> 00:49:50,045
Oh, George. Isn't it awful?
703
00:49:50,221 --> 00:49:53,987
It's worse than that. Just when I have
a chance to see you, I get orders.
704
00:49:54,158 --> 00:49:57,150
- What orders? I meant Father.
- Well, I meant Uncle Sam.
705
00:49:57,328 --> 00:49:58,989
I've got to rejoin my regiment.
706
00:49:59,163 --> 00:50:01,893
- Oh, no. When?
- Tonight.
707
00:50:02,300 --> 00:50:07,237
You can't. You'll be killed.
I won't let you.
708
00:50:14,245 --> 00:50:17,146
- Who's out here?
- Just us owls, sir.
709
00:50:17,315 --> 00:50:20,250
- Who?
- Just me and an old owl, Mr. Bacon.
710
00:50:20,418 --> 00:50:22,870
Have you seen anything
of that scoundrel?
711
00:50:22,896 --> 00:50:25,244
I ain't seen hide nor
hair of no scoundrel.
712
00:50:25,390 --> 00:50:30,589
- Well, keep your eyes open.
- Yes, sir, that's just what I'm doing, sir.
713
00:50:33,364 --> 00:50:35,889
- He's gone?
- I think so.
714
00:50:37,402 --> 00:50:40,530
There's always the chance
he may come back again.
715
00:50:44,042 --> 00:50:46,272
Oh, Libby.
716
00:50:47,445 --> 00:50:51,643
- Will you marry me?
- Yes, George.
717
00:50:55,420 --> 00:50:58,389
- What did you say?
- What? I said, will you marry me?
718
00:50:58,556 --> 00:51:01,423
- When I'm a general.
- Oh, lieutenant.
719
00:51:01,592 --> 00:51:03,457
Oh, it's easy to
become a general.
720
00:51:03,628 --> 00:51:07,587
Then that old crab... I mean, that nice
old father of yours will be proud...
721
00:51:07,765 --> 00:51:11,599
...to have me in the family. He'll
be at the station with hat in hand.
722
00:51:11,769 --> 00:51:13,828
Yes, general.
723
00:51:22,580 --> 00:51:24,480
The old owl.
724
00:51:26,217 --> 00:51:29,448
Holy smoke! It's your father.
Goodbye.
725
00:51:50,975 --> 00:51:54,308
What did you have to wake
up for, you old devil?
726
00:51:58,683 --> 00:52:01,151
Don't you wink at me.
727
00:52:03,454 --> 00:52:04,921
Take an order, corporal.
728
00:52:05,089 --> 00:52:07,523
Commanding officer,
Sixteenth Ohio Infantry.
729
00:52:07,692 --> 00:52:10,718
You're required to report
immediately the percentage of...
730
00:52:10,895 --> 00:52:16,128
...A, Methodists, B, Baptists, C,
other denominations among recruits.
731
00:52:16,300 --> 00:52:20,794
Using form AGO 117 less Section
12 in compiling the return.
732
00:52:20,972 --> 00:52:23,372
By order, et cetera, et
cetera, and initial it.
733
00:52:23,941 --> 00:52:25,966
From the colonel of
the 2nd Cavalry.
734
00:52:26,144 --> 00:52:29,341
He refuses to send back your
horse until Custer's return.
735
00:52:29,514 --> 00:52:31,277
- That's tomorrow, sir.
- Does he?
736
00:52:31,449 --> 00:52:35,647
Honor among horse thieves, I suppose. Well,
we'll see about that. Take an order.
737
00:52:35,820 --> 00:52:39,881
Lieutenant George Armstrong
Custer, 2nd Cavalry.
738
00:52:42,894 --> 00:52:45,795
Taipe, Lee gave us the slip.
Don't know where he's heading.
739
00:52:45,963 --> 00:52:48,864
Put every cavalry unit in GHQ
in reserve on the remove.
740
00:52:49,033 --> 00:52:52,093
- Get them going, Taipe.
- Yes, sir. Take an order, sergeant.
741
00:52:52,270 --> 00:52:56,138
Form AGO 21. No, use
the new form AGO 201.
742
00:52:56,307 --> 00:52:59,435
It isn't issued. Get it from supply.
Take his desk, Smith.
743
00:52:59,610 --> 00:53:01,942
What's the Michigan
Brigade doing at Hanover?
744
00:53:02,113 --> 00:53:05,344
Refitting. They lost their
commander and haven't a brigadier.
745
00:53:05,516 --> 00:53:08,417
Appoint one. The senior man
listed as Cavalry colonel.
746
00:53:08,586 --> 00:53:11,020
- I don't know who he is, sir.
- Find out later.
747
00:53:11,189 --> 00:53:13,419
- Dictate an order now.
- Yes, sir.
748
00:53:13,591 --> 00:53:15,388
Take this, corporal.
749
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:19,621
I've been instructed to inform you you've
been promoted to Brigadier General.
750
00:53:19,797 --> 00:53:24,234
You'll proceed to Hanover and assume
command of the Michigan Cavalry Brigade.
751
00:53:24,402 --> 00:53:27,735
General Scott, sir. News. Lee
has invaded Pennsylvania.
752
00:53:27,905 --> 00:53:32,069
- His patrols are near Gettysburg.
- Near Gettysburg!
753
00:53:32,243 --> 00:53:35,371
This means a reconcentration.
Come with me, gentlemen.
754
00:53:35,546 --> 00:53:37,411
- Sign this order, sir?
- Come, Taipe.
755
00:53:37,582 --> 00:53:39,209
Yes, sir.
756
00:53:46,557 --> 00:53:51,119
Gettysburg. Where the
deuce is Gettysburg?
757
00:54:03,874 --> 00:54:06,001
This is your tent.
I'll unpack your kit.
758
00:54:06,177 --> 00:54:08,509
The officers' mess is
at the end of the road.
759
00:54:08,679 --> 00:54:12,672
Excuse me, lieutenant. I represent George
Straith Limited, military tailors.
760
00:54:12,850 --> 00:54:16,251
We serve General Grant, General
Sherman, General Scott.
761
00:54:16,420 --> 00:54:19,548
- Any requirements? Greatcoat? Breeches?
- No, thanks.
762
00:54:19,724 --> 00:54:22,921
We can cut a fine tunic for a
figure like yours, lieutenant.
763
00:54:23,094 --> 00:54:27,258
There's any ideas that you have of your
own, we'd be glad to incorporate them.
764
00:54:27,431 --> 00:54:30,127
- No, thanks.
- There's a shell jacket that's admired.
765
00:54:30,301 --> 00:54:33,270
- Particularly by the ladies.
- Shut up and leave me alone.
766
00:54:33,437 --> 00:54:36,201
You're out of sorts, but if
you'd give me a chance...
767
00:54:36,374 --> 00:54:38,604
Shut up and get out!
768
00:54:40,144 --> 00:54:42,544
- Welcome back, general.
- Hello, general.
769
00:54:42,713 --> 00:54:46,706
General? I'll have you know,
gentlemen, I'm in no mood for humor.
770
00:54:46,884 --> 00:54:48,476
Good afternoon, general.
771
00:54:50,788 --> 00:54:54,918
- Orderly, I'd like a little coffee, please.
- Congratulations, general.
772
00:54:55,092 --> 00:54:56,684
That's enough of this fooling.
773
00:54:56,861 --> 00:55:00,319
- Next man will find a limit to my patience.
- For General Custer.
774
00:55:03,067 --> 00:55:06,901
- Sharp, I'll take this from anyone but you.
- Wait, we're not being funny.
775
00:55:07,071 --> 00:55:09,835
The Lord knows how or why,
but you are a general.
776
00:55:10,007 --> 00:55:11,474
- What do you mean?
- Orders.
777
00:55:11,642 --> 00:55:16,204
Here's a letter from headquarters to
Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer.
778
00:55:16,914 --> 00:55:20,372
- Is this someone's idea of a joke?
- There are no jokes in orders.
779
00:55:22,186 --> 00:55:24,711
This makes less sense to
me than it does to you.
780
00:55:24,889 --> 00:55:28,188
Must be a mistake. They don't
make generals out of shavetails.
781
00:55:28,359 --> 00:55:31,385
I'd ask for verification
if I were you.
782
00:55:31,562 --> 00:55:34,053
Well, you don't happen
to be me, Sharp.
783
00:55:34,231 --> 00:55:38,224
If there are four regiments of cavalry
waiting for a general named Custer...
784
00:55:38,402 --> 00:55:40,529
...then they've got him.
785
00:55:42,273 --> 00:55:44,036
Hey.
786
00:55:44,709 --> 00:55:48,543
Hi. Hey, tailor. Hey.
Tailor, come here.
787
00:56:03,394 --> 00:56:05,885
Yesterday there was fighting
20 miles from here.
788
00:56:06,063 --> 00:56:10,329
Our army has been driven out of Gettysburg
and occupies a ridge below town.
789
00:56:10,501 --> 00:56:14,699
The orders are to concentrate below this
hill marked Big Round Top on the map.
790
00:56:14,872 --> 00:56:17,363
Jeb Stuart's moving to
flank us from the south.
791
00:56:17,541 --> 00:56:20,669
Undoubtedly. As senior colonel,
I'll assume command...
792
00:56:20,845 --> 00:56:23,780
...if this brigadier hasn't
arrived by the time we move.
793
00:56:23,948 --> 00:56:26,974
Who this Custer is and why
he's not here, I don't know.
794
00:56:27,151 --> 00:56:29,278
Turn out the guard.
Commanding officer.
795
00:56:29,453 --> 00:56:32,718
We'll get a chance to see
what he looks like now.
796
00:56:39,063 --> 00:56:40,553
Judas priest, what's that?
797
00:56:40,731 --> 00:56:43,962
He's got more gold braid on
him than a French admiral.
798
00:56:46,570 --> 00:56:50,131
Gentlemen, we might as well reach
an understanding at first sight.
799
00:56:50,307 --> 00:56:53,071
After seeing your columns
and your transports...
800
00:56:53,244 --> 00:56:57,613
...I'm here to tell you that this brigade
is through with inefficiency as of today.
801
00:56:57,782 --> 00:57:01,616
It's going to learn the meaning of
smartness and orders are to be obeyed.
802
00:57:01,786 --> 00:57:04,118
- Do I make myself clear?
- Yes, sir.
803
00:57:04,288 --> 00:57:05,687
We're ready to move, sir.
804
00:57:05,856 --> 00:57:09,952
Brigade's ordered to concentrate on
Round Top, just south of Gettysburg.
805
00:57:10,127 --> 00:57:11,355
What's that?
806
00:57:11,529 --> 00:57:14,020
Probably enemy patrol
raiding the supply column.
807
00:57:14,198 --> 00:57:17,133
Lee's in Gettysburg, Stuart's
cavalry's in the South.
808
00:57:17,301 --> 00:57:21,328
Rejoin your units. Be prepared to move
in 10 minutes. Columns headed east.
809
00:57:21,505 --> 00:57:22,938
- East?
- What?
810
00:57:23,107 --> 00:57:25,541
- But the orders.
- To the devil with the orders.
811
00:57:25,709 --> 00:57:27,609
We'll ride to the
sound of the guns.
812
00:57:27,778 --> 00:57:29,211
Things look better now.
813
00:57:29,380 --> 00:57:32,838
With Cemetery back in our hands and
Sickles' front restored but...
814
00:57:33,017 --> 00:57:34,882
Yesterday we lost 20,000 men.
815
00:57:35,052 --> 00:57:36,952
Pickett's reinforced Longstreet.
816
00:57:37,121 --> 00:57:39,988
- Massing to attack our center.
- I'm not worried about that.
817
00:57:40,157 --> 00:57:41,681
I'm worried about Jeb Stuart.
818
00:57:41,859 --> 00:57:44,191
Why hasn't he turned the
flank at Round Top?
819
00:57:44,361 --> 00:57:46,852
He knows our cavalry's
concentrated to stop him.
820
00:57:47,031 --> 00:57:52,196
When did our cavalry ever stop Jeb Stuart?
If he turns us, the position's lost.
821
00:57:52,369 --> 00:57:55,395
Washington and
Baltimore will fall.
822
00:57:59,608 --> 00:58:01,200
Hanover?
823
00:58:01,577 --> 00:58:04,410
Stuart. Stuart's
caught at Hanover.
824
00:58:04,780 --> 00:58:06,008
It's a mistake.
825
00:58:06,315 --> 00:58:09,648
- Get verification at once.
- It has been verified, sir.
826
00:58:14,390 --> 00:58:17,882
He's on our rear. We're trapped.
827
00:58:18,060 --> 00:58:20,824
All that stands between
us and total disaster...
828
00:58:20,996 --> 00:58:23,931
...is the Michigan Brigade.
Handful of volunteers.
829
00:58:24,100 --> 00:58:25,965
But they were ordered
to Round Top.
830
00:58:26,135 --> 00:58:29,434
- It's on its way now.
- Then stop it, Taipe. Stop it.
831
00:58:29,605 --> 00:58:32,199
Tell it to hold its
ground to the last man.
832
00:58:32,374 --> 00:58:33,807
Who's the brigadier?
833
00:58:33,976 --> 00:58:36,410
- Why...
- Who is he, Taipe?
834
00:58:36,579 --> 00:58:38,046
Why...
835
00:58:40,149 --> 00:58:41,446
Corporal Smith.
836
00:58:42,084 --> 00:58:45,281
As you were. Who's the new
commander of the Michigan Cavalry?
837
00:58:45,454 --> 00:58:47,615
- General Custer, sir.
- General Custer.
838
00:58:47,890 --> 00:58:50,757
- Custer? What Custer's that?
- George Armstrong Custer.
839
00:58:50,926 --> 00:58:53,053
Here's a copy of the order.
840
00:58:53,729 --> 00:58:56,789
- What is this? How did this happen?
- Well, who is he?
841
00:58:56,966 --> 00:58:58,263
Heaven help us, sir.
842
00:58:58,434 --> 00:59:01,403
The Michigan Brigade is led
by the most irresponsible...
843
00:59:01,570 --> 00:59:04,095
...rattle-brained second
lieutenant in the Army.
844
00:59:09,411 --> 00:59:12,039
Seventh Michigan, forward.
845
00:59:16,051 --> 00:59:17,678
Trot!
846
00:59:21,590 --> 00:59:22,818
Gallop!
847
00:59:24,226 --> 00:59:26,160
Charge!
848
00:59:50,419 --> 00:59:52,478
We'll take immediate
action with Custer.
849
00:59:52,655 --> 00:59:55,453
This Custer of yours is
insubordinate, all right.
850
00:59:55,658 --> 00:59:59,424
Thank God for it. He's not
marching on Round Top.
851
00:59:59,595 --> 01:00:03,656
- He's attacking Stuart at Hanover!
- Attacking? Attacking a whole corps?
852
01:00:03,833 --> 01:00:06,700
Rather than hold his ground,
the mad fool is attacking!
853
01:00:21,851 --> 01:00:25,150
That was a gallant charge,
men, even if it failed.
854
01:00:25,387 --> 01:00:29,289
Sergeant, see that the
wounded are taken care of.
855
01:00:30,626 --> 01:00:32,685
Senior colonel presents
his compliments.
856
01:00:32,862 --> 01:00:35,922
Fifth and 6th Michigan are
formed for attack. Any orders?
857
01:00:39,034 --> 01:00:41,502
Try more weight. Fifth
and 6th attack together.
858
01:00:41,670 --> 01:00:44,798
Very good. Where will the general's
headquarters be located?
859
01:00:44,974 --> 01:00:48,068
Headquarters? In front of
the attacking regiment.
860
01:00:55,985 --> 01:00:58,613
Fifth and 6th Michigan, forward!
861
01:01:05,961 --> 01:01:07,656
Trot!
862
01:01:09,999 --> 01:01:11,933
Gallop!
863
01:01:13,402 --> 01:01:15,097
Charge!
864
01:01:39,428 --> 01:01:42,625
The order in question, being
erroneous, is hereby revoked...
865
01:01:42,865 --> 01:01:45,425
...and as of today, revert
to second lieutenant.
866
01:01:45,601 --> 01:01:47,262
Never mind that, Taipe.
867
01:01:47,436 --> 01:01:50,837
"Consecutive attacks by 7th,
6th, 5th Michigan Cavalry..."
868
01:01:51,006 --> 01:01:53,201
...are repulsed by
losses near Hanover.
869
01:01:53,375 --> 01:01:57,573
- "Enemy advance continues."
- Three regiments ruined by a fool.
870
01:01:57,746 --> 01:01:59,509
Three out of our last four.
871
01:02:08,557 --> 01:02:10,081
Ride, you Wolverines!
872
01:02:10,259 --> 01:02:12,750
First Michigan, charge!
873
01:02:51,633 --> 01:02:54,966
What is it? What is it?
Read it to me, man.
874
01:02:55,137 --> 01:02:58,664
"Stuart retiring in disorder after
assault by Michigan Cavalry...
875
01:02:58,841 --> 01:03:01,139
...enemy abandoning guns."
876
01:03:05,948 --> 01:03:07,575
And now, gentlemen...
877
01:03:07,783 --> 01:03:10,980
...If Meade can hold the
ridge at Gettysburg...
878
01:03:11,253 --> 01:03:14,154
...by God's grace, the
Union will be safe.
879
01:03:15,457 --> 01:03:16,754
General...
880
01:03:16,925 --> 01:03:18,654
...about this Custer matter...
881
01:03:18,827 --> 01:03:23,093
- ...what do you propose to do?
- Do? Do, Taipe?
882
01:03:24,466 --> 01:03:26,491
Oh, yes, Custer.
883
01:03:26,668 --> 01:03:29,262
I intend to walk
across the street...
884
01:03:29,438 --> 01:03:33,772
...and buy myself a double portion
of creamed Bermuda onions.
885
01:04:17,076 --> 01:04:18,941
- Charles, good to see you.
- Welcome, welcome
886
01:04:19,111 --> 01:04:21,545
Welcome home, general.
Welcome home.
887
01:04:21,847 --> 01:04:23,075
We're proud of you...
888
01:04:23,249 --> 01:04:26,650
...and proud to know that one of
our townsmen has won such glory.
889
01:04:26,819 --> 01:04:30,550
- You're a credit to Monroe and the Army.
- Thank you, sir.
890
01:04:30,723 --> 01:04:33,419
Now, the parade will
form on Elm Street...
891
01:04:33,592 --> 01:04:35,924
...turn into D Street,
cross the parkway...
892
01:04:36,095 --> 01:04:39,690
...and then march right up Main Street.
Kindly stay on the sidewalks.
893
01:04:39,865 --> 01:04:42,959
Those wanting to march along,
do so after the committee.
894
01:04:43,135 --> 01:04:47,231
The band will lead the parade,
followed by myself and General...
895
01:04:48,808 --> 01:04:50,332
Libby.
896
01:04:51,978 --> 01:04:54,378
- Are you forgetting yourself?
- It's all right.
897
01:04:54,547 --> 01:04:56,606
Everything's very proper.
We're engaged.
898
01:04:57,850 --> 01:04:59,545
Well, splendid. Splendid.
899
01:04:59,719 --> 01:05:01,550
- We're going to be married.
- Today.
900
01:05:01,721 --> 01:05:05,088
I brought my regimental chaplain.
General Sheridan is best man.
901
01:05:05,291 --> 01:05:07,486
- With your permission.
- My permission?
902
01:05:07,660 --> 01:05:11,152
Well, now, of course, general,
I shall be honored to give it.
903
01:05:11,330 --> 01:05:12,854
You mustn't be too impetuous.
904
01:05:13,032 --> 01:05:17,025
There's the announcement and arrangement.
If you marry today, you can't have them.
905
01:05:17,203 --> 01:05:20,798
I shall have General Custer, and
he's what I set out to get.
906
01:05:20,973 --> 01:05:23,464
Libby, this is
positively unmaidenly.
907
01:05:23,642 --> 01:05:25,803
After today, that won't matter.
908
01:05:45,765 --> 01:05:49,132
Where did Miss Libby get herself
such a fine, handsome man?
909
01:05:49,301 --> 01:05:52,668
Why, child, I found
him in a teacup.
910
01:06:15,561 --> 01:06:18,621
There is two gentlemen to see
General Custer, Miss Libby.
911
01:06:18,798 --> 01:06:20,595
They claim their name is Sharp.
912
01:06:20,766 --> 01:06:23,530
Thank you, Jane. Let Callie
attend to the callers.
913
01:06:23,702 --> 01:06:26,694
- Yes, ma'am.
- Callie, has General Custer returned?
914
01:06:26,872 --> 01:06:30,205
No, ma'am, not since he left at
his usual time this morning.
915
01:06:30,376 --> 01:06:34,039
I'll receive the callers here. Tell
them the general is expected soon.
916
01:06:34,213 --> 01:06:37,376
I'll tell them he's downtown
taking care of some business.
917
01:06:41,220 --> 01:06:45,418
I don't hold with you, Major Smith.
I don't hold with you at all, sir.
918
01:06:47,827 --> 01:06:52,855
If Lee had concentrated his artillery,
and succeeded in enfilading Round Top...
919
01:06:53,032 --> 01:06:55,466
...we would have been
licked at Gettysburg.
920
01:06:55,634 --> 01:06:58,398
- Why didn't he, general?
- Well, who knows?
921
01:06:58,571 --> 01:07:03,338
Every great soldier has a bad day,
and perhaps it was Lee's turn.
922
01:07:07,113 --> 01:07:11,311
He who drinks and runs away
lives to drink another day.
923
01:07:12,718 --> 01:07:17,212
Thank you, Joe. Step up to the bar, boys.
My pleasure. Set them up, Joe.
924
01:07:17,423 --> 01:07:22,019
Mr. Sharp, the money doesn't matter, but
what you offer is the answer to a prayer.
925
01:07:22,194 --> 01:07:26,358
I'd almost given up hope of George
finding anything suitable in civil life.
926
01:07:26,699 --> 01:07:29,259
We know of no one else
so well-qualified.
927
01:07:31,570 --> 01:07:33,435
So you're here at last.
928
01:07:33,606 --> 01:07:37,042
I'm afraid I've been boring
these gentlemen dreadfully.
929
01:07:37,610 --> 01:07:39,510
They'll get no sympathy from me.
930
01:07:39,678 --> 01:07:44,240
Madam, until this afternoon, I'd
envied General Custer only his fame.
931
01:07:44,416 --> 01:07:46,145
Oh, Mr. Sharp.
932
01:07:46,318 --> 01:07:50,812
But you'll excuse me. I have some
flowers I must cut in the garden.
933
01:07:54,793 --> 01:07:57,261
I hope you'll forgive
this intrusion, Custer.
934
01:07:57,463 --> 01:08:02,298
The North and South have forgotten their
difficulties, so I hope we can forget ours.
935
01:08:03,369 --> 01:08:06,236
May I present my father, William Sharp.
General Custer.
936
01:08:06,405 --> 01:08:07,997
- How do you do?
- How do you do?
937
01:08:08,174 --> 01:08:12,474
Do you know, sir, I was joking with the
adjutant general about you last week.
938
01:08:12,645 --> 01:08:13,873
- Taipe?
- Yes, Taipe.
939
01:08:14,046 --> 01:08:16,606
You stole his horse on
one occasion, it seems.
940
01:08:16,782 --> 01:08:18,374
That's right. A fine animal.
941
01:08:18,551 --> 01:08:20,883
- Much too good for him. Drink?
- Thank you.
942
01:08:21,053 --> 01:08:24,489
We've come from Washington
especially to see you, general.
943
01:08:24,657 --> 01:08:26,852
Indeed? Why?
944
01:08:27,026 --> 01:08:29,620
Because there's money
in fame, these days.
945
01:08:29,828 --> 01:08:34,060
We're offering you the presidency of the
Western Railroad Trading Company...
946
01:08:34,233 --> 01:08:35,860
...at a salary of $ 10,000.
947
01:08:36,035 --> 01:08:39,994
It's a corporation I organized for
developing the Dakota Territories.
948
01:08:40,172 --> 01:08:41,400
But...
949
01:08:41,574 --> 01:08:45,237
...what use could I be to a concern
of that kind? I'm a soldier.
950
01:08:45,411 --> 01:08:47,436
Well, you're a
national hero, Custer.
951
01:08:47,613 --> 01:08:52,050
Your name would make it easy for us
to get government concessions...
952
01:08:52,218 --> 01:08:54,743
...such as trading
monopolies at Army posts.
953
01:08:54,920 --> 01:08:57,855
It would go far in selling
stock to the public.
954
01:08:58,023 --> 01:08:59,820
My name?
955
01:09:00,092 --> 01:09:01,719
I see.
956
01:09:06,699 --> 01:09:07,927
What's the stock worth?
957
01:09:08,100 --> 01:09:11,331
Nothing, naturally, until it
begins to earn dividends.
958
01:09:12,371 --> 01:09:14,305
Then I'm not interested.
959
01:09:14,473 --> 01:09:15,997
My name stands for something.
960
01:09:16,175 --> 01:09:19,838
I'll not gamble its meaning on the
success or failure of any business.
961
01:09:20,012 --> 01:09:21,206
Not interested.
962
01:09:21,380 --> 01:09:25,476
General, I'm afraid you've an
inclination to be a romantic fool.
963
01:09:25,684 --> 01:09:29,381
An admirable one, no doubt,
but nonetheless a fool.
964
01:09:29,555 --> 01:09:33,457
Can a man of your distinction bear
the thought of living off his wife?
965
01:09:33,892 --> 01:09:37,726
- I know it hasn't occurred to you...
- It's occurred to me.
966
01:09:37,896 --> 01:09:41,127
We offer a chance to serve the
nation as you did in battle.
967
01:09:41,300 --> 01:09:44,701
The company will bring civilization
to a waste of territory...
968
01:09:44,870 --> 01:09:47,031
...which is now in the
hands of savages.
969
01:09:47,239 --> 01:09:49,764
- Why, it's as fine a...
- That's enough.
970
01:09:49,942 --> 01:09:55,505
I'll gamble. I'll gamble with anything. My
money, my sword, my life, if necessary.
971
01:09:55,681 --> 01:09:59,276
But there's one thing I won't gamble
with, and that's my good name.
972
01:09:59,451 --> 01:10:00,850
Good day, gentlemen.
973
01:10:02,721 --> 01:10:04,621
You're excited, general. Now...
974
01:10:04,790 --> 01:10:07,953
- It's not an offer that comes twice...
- No, once is enough.
975
01:10:08,127 --> 01:10:11,290
Quite enough. Good
day, gentlemen.
976
01:10:39,725 --> 01:10:42,353
What did the Sharps
want of you, George?
977
01:10:42,961 --> 01:10:45,862
Only my name, for a
stock promotion.
978
01:10:46,031 --> 01:10:47,555
Only your name?
979
01:10:47,733 --> 01:10:51,567
Yes, they wanted to hire
it for $ 10,000 a year.
980
01:10:55,574 --> 01:10:57,041
It's a lot of money...
981
01:10:57,209 --> 01:11:00,303
...but we've five dogs
and 11 horses now.
982
01:11:00,479 --> 01:11:02,379
What could we have done with it?
983
01:11:06,285 --> 01:11:09,743
Well, think of all the bags of
onions we could have bought.
984
01:11:10,322 --> 01:11:13,018
To keep me away from
you, I suppose.
985
01:11:13,992 --> 01:11:16,688
Aren't you happy
here, Mr. Custer?
986
01:11:24,069 --> 01:11:25,900
Mrs. Custer...
987
01:11:26,238 --> 01:11:28,138
...I've never been
so happy in my life.
988
01:11:37,449 --> 01:11:40,009
Mrs. Custer, sir.
989
01:11:43,188 --> 01:11:45,816
General Sheridan should
have warned me, ma'am.
990
01:11:45,991 --> 01:11:49,927
- I thought Uncle Phil advised you that...
- He advised me of your coming.
991
01:11:50,095 --> 01:11:54,054
He didn't warn me that I would meet
the most beautiful girl I ever saw.
992
01:11:55,534 --> 01:11:58,765
You're very kind, General Scott.
And very embarrassing.
993
01:11:58,937 --> 01:12:02,373
Upon my soul, ma'am, you make me
regret this unchivalrous age.
994
01:12:02,541 --> 01:12:06,807
If ever a lady's hand deserved to
be saluted, it is certainly yours.
995
01:12:07,646 --> 01:12:09,170
Forgive an old soldier.
996
01:12:09,348 --> 01:12:11,248
It was the custom in his youth.
997
01:12:11,450 --> 01:12:14,317
Did Uncle Phil tell you why
I came, General Scott?
998
01:12:14,486 --> 01:12:17,717
No, he said it was a matter for
my decision, in any event.
999
01:12:17,956 --> 01:12:20,516
- It's about my husband.
- Of course, Custer.
1000
01:12:20,692 --> 01:12:22,853
I should have asked,
how is the lucky dog?
1001
01:12:23,028 --> 01:12:24,586
Not so lucky, I'm afraid.
1002
01:12:25,631 --> 01:12:29,089
Well, that's bad. Is
he in ill health?
1003
01:12:29,268 --> 01:12:31,498
Not exactly, General Scott.
1004
01:12:31,670 --> 01:12:34,503
But inactivity is doing
something to him.
1005
01:12:34,673 --> 01:12:38,973
Undermining him. George will never
be himself out of the Army.
1006
01:12:39,144 --> 01:12:40,805
He's not happy.
1007
01:12:41,380 --> 01:12:43,439
Even though he pretends to be.
1008
01:12:43,615 --> 01:12:47,312
General Scott, can't you put
him back into active service?
1009
01:12:47,486 --> 01:12:53,118
My dear, I know what eats a man who has
endured the tension of war for years.
1010
01:12:53,292 --> 01:12:55,886
It's like a drug. A man
can't live without it.
1011
01:12:56,261 --> 01:12:59,424
Please, General Scott. Please.
1012
01:12:59,798 --> 01:13:03,598
Mrs. Custer, I'm bound by the seniority
rule in making appointments.
1013
01:13:03,769 --> 01:13:05,566
The rule of the Army.
1014
01:13:05,871 --> 01:13:09,466
Come, come, my child. You're
unduly distressed about George.
1015
01:13:09,641 --> 01:13:14,374
- Time is a healer. Time will cure him.
- No, no. It will destroy him.
1016
01:13:18,517 --> 01:13:20,849
There's something you
haven't told me.
1017
01:13:21,019 --> 01:13:22,611
Isn't there?
1018
01:13:23,288 --> 01:13:28,749
It's very difficult for me to tell
you this, but I'm afraid. So afraid.
1019
01:13:28,927 --> 01:13:30,155
He's been drinking.
1020
01:13:30,329 --> 01:13:33,594
So much. Much more
than he knows.
1021
01:13:37,369 --> 01:13:40,668
- I see.
- I can't bear to think of him in degradation.
1022
01:13:40,839 --> 01:13:44,400
General Scott, you've got to
do something to save him.
1023
01:13:44,576 --> 01:13:48,012
We owe him so much. All of us.
1024
01:13:48,180 --> 01:13:51,946
There, there, my dear.
You're quite right.
1025
01:13:53,585 --> 01:13:55,746
We do owe him a lot.
1026
01:14:03,595 --> 01:14:06,063
Yes, sir. That is
a handsome piece.
1027
01:14:06,231 --> 01:14:09,064
Uncle Phil was sending the
watch when I popped in.
1028
01:14:09,234 --> 01:14:11,099
The brigade asked
him to choose it.
1029
01:14:12,905 --> 01:14:14,998
Those are great boys.
Great days.
1030
01:14:15,207 --> 01:14:17,539
And the little miniature
of you is beautiful.
1031
01:14:17,743 --> 01:14:21,008
The chain belonged to Father. I
always wanted you to have it.
1032
01:14:21,179 --> 01:14:22,646
It's beautiful.
1033
01:14:23,382 --> 01:14:26,215
- Here's your morning mail, general.
- Thank you.
1034
01:14:26,385 --> 01:14:28,250
That must have been a dull trip.
1035
01:14:28,420 --> 01:14:34,017
It wasn't so dull. I did a lot of shopping,
and it was wonderful to see Uncle Phil.
1036
01:14:34,192 --> 01:14:35,921
I missed you.
1037
01:14:47,205 --> 01:14:50,333
How do you like your eggs this
morning, boiled or fried?
1038
01:14:50,509 --> 01:14:53,376
- What?
- I said, how do you like your eggs?
1039
01:14:53,545 --> 01:14:55,240
Eggs? Sure.
1040
01:14:55,914 --> 01:14:57,575
Eggs. Boiled and fried.
1041
01:14:57,749 --> 01:15:00,047
Scrambled, poached and
rubbed in your hair.
1042
01:15:00,218 --> 01:15:03,210
- The man's plumb crazy.
- Libby. Libby, look.
1043
01:15:03,388 --> 01:15:04,821
I'm on the active list.
1044
01:15:04,990 --> 01:15:08,255
Lieutenant colonel, raising a
regiment of cavalry at Fort Lincoln.
1045
01:15:08,427 --> 01:15:11,225
They passed up 50 senior
officers to give me the job.
1046
01:15:11,396 --> 01:15:13,296
Oh, darling, how wonderful.
1047
01:15:13,465 --> 01:15:16,832
I'm so glad for you. But
where is Fort Lincoln?
1048
01:15:17,002 --> 01:15:21,632
In the Dakota Territory, I think. Wait.
I'll get the map. Sit down. Sit down.
1049
01:15:24,343 --> 01:15:27,870
Callie. General Custer
and I are going away.
1050
01:15:28,647 --> 01:15:31,275
You must pack the things I
mentioned this morning.
1051
01:15:31,450 --> 01:15:35,716
But, Miss Libby, what about all your
lovely things? Your china, your silver...
1052
01:15:35,887 --> 01:15:37,479
...and all your pretty clothes?
1053
01:15:37,656 --> 01:15:39,886
Well, I'll have to
leave those behind.
1054
01:15:40,058 --> 01:15:41,582
Callie...
1055
01:15:41,760 --> 01:15:43,853
...I'll have to leave you too.
1056
01:15:44,262 --> 01:15:48,596
Miss Libby, ain't y'all gonna have nobody
to fix for you while you're up there?
1057
01:15:48,767 --> 01:15:50,792
I'll get along, Callie.
1058
01:15:50,969 --> 01:15:52,368
It's ridiculous.
1059
01:15:52,537 --> 01:15:54,664
Giving up your home
and your life.
1060
01:15:54,840 --> 01:15:57,434
I hope the general appreciates
what you're doing.
1061
01:15:57,609 --> 01:16:02,012
Fort Lincoln. Fort Lincoln.
Here it is, see?
1062
01:16:03,415 --> 01:16:06,043
You go by rail to Bismarck...
1063
01:16:06,284 --> 01:16:09,048
...and from then on,
by wagon trail.
1064
01:16:36,381 --> 01:16:39,441
Move over, before I cut the
rest of your tail off.
1065
01:16:39,618 --> 01:16:43,145
- I beg your pardon?
- I said, move over, you dirty Ethiopian...
1066
01:16:43,321 --> 01:16:45,812
...son of a blue-bellied Mohawk!
1067
01:16:45,991 --> 01:16:47,720
You mean the horse.
1068
01:17:16,521 --> 01:17:21,254
Stop that, you ornery, owl-faced
floozy, or I'll spit in your ear.
1069
01:17:22,194 --> 01:17:23,422
You made it.
1070
01:17:23,595 --> 01:17:29,431
Shucks, that ain't nothing. I can spit
in a prairie dog's eye at 50 feet.
1071
01:17:29,668 --> 01:17:35,470
Ain't nobody in these parts can beat
California Joe when it comes to spitting.
1072
01:17:35,640 --> 01:17:38,131
And who's California Joe?
1073
01:17:38,310 --> 01:17:40,540
Who...?
1074
01:17:40,712 --> 01:17:43,374
- That's me.
- Oh, I see.
1075
01:17:43,548 --> 01:17:45,038
You come from California.
1076
01:17:45,217 --> 01:17:47,549
No, ma'am. No.
1077
01:17:47,719 --> 01:17:50,153
Then why do they call
you California Joe?
1078
01:17:50,322 --> 01:17:53,155
Why, I guess because I...
1079
01:17:53,325 --> 01:17:57,022
Because I've been aiming
there for 27 years...
1080
01:17:57,195 --> 01:18:02,098
...and it looks like I'll be aiming
there for 27 more years, with these...
1081
01:18:02,267 --> 01:18:04,599
...Indians on the
warpath here again.
1082
01:18:04,770 --> 01:18:06,670
Are we likely to see any today?
1083
01:18:06,838 --> 01:18:09,333
No more likely than
you are to see them
1084
01:18:09,359 --> 01:18:11,698
soldiers in their fancy
pants from the fort.
1085
01:18:14,579 --> 01:18:17,377
How is old California? Taught
you how to chew tobacco?
1086
01:18:17,582 --> 01:18:19,743
No, he's been teaching
me about Indians.
1087
01:18:19,918 --> 01:18:22,910
Let me tell you, he has no
respect for soldiers, sir.
1088
01:18:23,088 --> 01:18:24,988
He hasn't? What's
wrong with him?
1089
01:18:25,157 --> 01:18:27,853
Everything they don't
know is about Indians.
1090
01:18:28,026 --> 01:18:32,087
Indians is too ignorant to fight right.
They fight wrong every time.
1091
01:18:32,264 --> 01:18:34,630
That's why the soldiers
always get licked.
1092
01:18:34,800 --> 01:18:37,894
To lick an Indian, you gotta
fight them like an Indian.
1093
01:18:38,069 --> 01:18:40,162
Might be something to that.
1094
01:18:40,338 --> 01:18:41,828
How would you like a job?
1095
01:18:42,941 --> 01:18:45,466
What, me?
1096
01:18:45,644 --> 01:18:48,204
Be a soldier, and wear
them fancy pants...
1097
01:18:48,380 --> 01:18:52,817
...and wash my ears with store
soap and sleep in a bed?
1098
01:18:53,552 --> 01:18:55,679
No, sir!
1099
01:18:55,854 --> 01:18:58,254
My business is shooting,
not saluting.
1100
01:18:58,423 --> 01:19:02,689
I can't salute, anyway. I got
rheumatism in my saluting arm. I...
1101
01:19:04,396 --> 01:19:07,024
Well! I'm a dirty... Look!
1102
01:19:07,365 --> 01:19:10,528
- What's wrong? What do you see?
- Skin your eyeballs, son.
1103
01:19:10,702 --> 01:19:13,364
There's a redskin over
that rock yonder.
1104
01:19:13,538 --> 01:19:15,665
- Indians?
- One, maybe two.
1105
01:19:15,841 --> 01:19:17,502
On your belly, ma'am.
1106
01:19:24,382 --> 01:19:25,440
After them, men.
1107
01:19:33,058 --> 01:19:34,855
George. George.
1108
01:19:35,026 --> 01:19:36,721
Come on. Get out of here.
1109
01:20:06,591 --> 01:20:10,789
Signal your people. Drive back my horses,
or I'll hang you at the fort gate.
1110
01:20:12,264 --> 01:20:13,925
You give word?
1111
01:20:14,099 --> 01:20:16,431
- No kill with rope?
- I give word.
1112
01:20:16,601 --> 01:20:18,159
Now signal.
1113
01:20:18,503 --> 01:20:20,130
I speak.
1114
01:20:23,742 --> 01:20:28,202
Why you dirty, moth-eaten,
cockeyed son of a rat!
1115
01:20:28,380 --> 01:20:30,780
If it ain't old Crazy Horse...
1116
01:20:30,949 --> 01:20:32,780
...chief of the Sioux.
1117
01:20:33,318 --> 01:20:37,948
What a shivaree there's gonna be when they
drag you to Fort Lincoln on that rope.
1118
01:20:38,123 --> 01:20:40,717
We'll take him there. He
can cool off for 60 days.
1119
01:20:40,892 --> 01:20:42,223
Maybe he'll be good.
1120
01:20:42,394 --> 01:20:44,294
Tie him up. Put
him in the wagon.
1121
01:20:44,863 --> 01:20:46,990
We better vamoose out
of here quick...
1122
01:20:47,165 --> 01:20:49,326
...before the rest
come to get the chief.
1123
01:20:49,501 --> 01:20:51,765
I think you're right, Joe.
1124
01:21:18,596 --> 01:21:20,826
California, California.
1125
01:21:28,206 --> 01:21:29,605
What did she say?
1126
01:21:29,774 --> 01:21:32,675
She wants to know if she can
name the papoose after me.
1127
01:21:32,844 --> 01:21:35,108
How charming.
1128
01:21:40,719 --> 01:21:43,244
Turn out the guard. Get
rid of that cigar.
1129
01:21:44,489 --> 01:21:45,717
Guard, turn out.
1130
01:21:57,936 --> 01:21:59,198
Look at that guard.
1131
01:21:59,371 --> 01:22:02,431
Filthy as mountain goats. They
don't even know how to stand.
1132
01:22:02,607 --> 01:22:04,734
The regiment's just
been mustered in.
1133
01:22:04,909 --> 01:22:07,400
- We haven't a colonel yet.
- You've got one now.
1134
01:22:07,579 --> 01:22:11,071
Why aren't there any patrols? Why
are you all hiding in this fort?
1135
01:22:11,249 --> 01:22:15,049
This fort isn't here to protect the Army.
The Army should protect the trail.
1136
01:22:15,220 --> 01:22:17,688
Crazy Horse's Sioux are raiding.
We've orders to wait.
1137
01:22:17,856 --> 01:22:19,585
You have, have you?
1138
01:22:19,758 --> 01:22:21,316
Bring out that Indian.
1139
01:22:21,493 --> 01:22:24,087
I'd like you to see,
Mr. Whatever-Your-Name-Is...
1140
01:22:24,262 --> 01:22:27,561
...what's been holding up a
whole regiment of U.S. Cavalry.
1141
01:22:28,233 --> 01:22:30,497
- Crazy Horse.
- Yeah, string him up.
1142
01:22:33,738 --> 01:22:36,605
Back, back. All of you, back.
1143
01:22:36,775 --> 01:22:39,573
Or I'll turn him loose
and let him chase you.
1144
01:22:39,744 --> 01:22:43,840
You give word, Long Hair.
Shoot now. No rope.
1145
01:22:44,015 --> 01:22:47,451
I give word, Crazy Horse.
I keep my word.
1146
01:22:47,619 --> 01:22:50,110
Tell off a detail. Take
him to the guardhouse.
1147
01:22:50,288 --> 01:22:52,654
Yes, sir. You four men,
take the prisoner.
1148
01:22:52,824 --> 01:22:55,156
- And see that he's well treated.
- Yes, sir.
1149
01:22:55,326 --> 01:22:58,227
You'll find headquarters
straight ahead, sir.
1150
01:22:59,597 --> 01:23:01,565
Out of the way.
1151
01:23:03,802 --> 01:23:06,270
California, why are
Indians in the fort?
1152
01:23:06,438 --> 01:23:09,430
They're trading for rifles.
1153
01:23:09,607 --> 01:23:11,507
Rifles?
1154
01:23:12,277 --> 01:23:13,869
Libby.
1155
01:23:14,112 --> 01:23:15,739
You go on. I'll return shortly.
1156
01:23:15,914 --> 01:23:18,747
California, take the
wagons on to my quarters.
1157
01:23:19,050 --> 01:23:22,838
Sure. Say, son, about
that joining the Army.
1158
01:23:22,864 --> 01:23:25,480
I calculate I could
change my mind...
1159
01:23:25,890 --> 01:23:30,156
...if I didn't have to wear them
fancy pants. And no saluting.
1160
01:23:30,328 --> 01:23:32,626
Up there, hoghead. Come on!
1161
01:24:03,595 --> 01:24:06,155
Where's the owner?
I want to see him.
1162
01:24:06,331 --> 01:24:07,730
Boss.
1163
01:24:10,702 --> 01:24:13,830
- Well, look who's here.
- You.
1164
01:24:14,005 --> 01:24:15,939
- Are you in charge here?
- Yep.
1165
01:24:16,107 --> 01:24:18,940
General manager of all the
company's trading stores.
1166
01:24:19,110 --> 01:24:22,511
- You turned down a good thing, Custer.
- Colonel Custer to you.
1167
01:24:22,680 --> 01:24:25,376
I'm in command here, and
don't you ever forget it.
1168
01:24:25,550 --> 01:24:29,179
- Tell me what you're selling rifles for.
- For $ 75 apiece.
1169
01:24:29,354 --> 01:24:31,720
Civil War surplus bought
from the government.
1170
01:24:31,890 --> 01:24:35,121
You're selling them to Indians?
Why are they in the fort?
1171
01:24:35,293 --> 01:24:37,488
They're friendlies.
1172
01:24:37,662 --> 01:24:38,890
Friendlies.
1173
01:24:39,063 --> 01:24:41,031
I certainly hope
you're right, Sharp.
1174
01:24:41,199 --> 01:24:45,329
These Winchesters will outrange any of
our cavalry rifles, and you know it.
1175
01:25:03,454 --> 01:25:05,945
Attention. Commanding officer.
1176
01:25:07,425 --> 01:25:09,985
Sergeant, there's two
men brawling outside.
1177
01:25:10,161 --> 01:25:13,961
Have them arrested for drunkenness.
They're supposed to be cavalrymen.
1178
01:25:14,132 --> 01:25:16,259
- Yes, sir.
- At ease, men.
1179
01:25:19,470 --> 01:25:22,405
Well, colonel, I hope
you like your recruits.
1180
01:25:24,242 --> 01:25:29,043
They're about the worst lot of rustlers,
gunmen and outcasts that I've ever seen.
1181
01:25:29,214 --> 01:25:30,841
The scum of the earth.
1182
01:25:31,015 --> 01:25:33,449
It seems to be your
business to worsen them.
1183
01:25:33,618 --> 01:25:36,280
Now, look, Sharp. I
want this bar closed.
1184
01:25:36,955 --> 01:25:38,445
I want it closed now.
1185
01:25:38,623 --> 01:25:41,786
It is run under a government franchise.
You can't close it.
1186
01:25:41,960 --> 01:25:44,622
- Sergeant.
- Yes, sir?
1187
01:25:44,796 --> 01:25:46,559
Turn out a squad of armed men.
1188
01:25:46,731 --> 01:25:48,426
Close this place up.
1189
01:25:51,269 --> 01:25:52,736
Men...
1190
01:25:52,904 --> 01:25:54,838
...this bar is a
lawful business.
1191
01:25:55,006 --> 01:25:57,338
The company's got one
in every Army post.
1192
01:25:57,508 --> 01:25:59,976
Now, you know your rights, boys.
1193
01:26:00,178 --> 01:26:03,272
Nobody can tell you how
to spend your pay, right?
1194
01:26:03,514 --> 01:26:05,106
Wait a minute, men.
1195
01:26:05,283 --> 01:26:06,773
Wait a minute.
1196
01:26:08,286 --> 01:26:11,949
I have to admit that what Mr. Sharp
says is perfectly correct.
1197
01:26:12,257 --> 01:26:14,851
I've no legal reason
to close this bar.
1198
01:26:15,026 --> 01:26:16,391
None whatsoever.
1199
01:26:16,561 --> 01:26:17,926
And I won't...
1200
01:26:18,096 --> 01:26:21,156
...providing Mr. Sharp
doesn't mind being taken...
1201
01:26:21,332 --> 01:26:24,301
...and slung through the
mirror every time it's open...
1202
01:26:25,637 --> 01:26:28,299
...commencing one
minute from now.
1203
01:26:43,788 --> 01:26:45,016
Close it up.
1204
01:26:45,356 --> 01:26:47,551
Now, listen, men...
1205
01:26:47,725 --> 01:26:49,818
...I'm not doing this
to be a bluenose.
1206
01:26:49,994 --> 01:26:52,462
I know it's tough, not
being able to drink.
1207
01:26:52,630 --> 01:26:54,530
It's tough on me too...
1208
01:26:54,699 --> 01:26:56,530
...maybe it's tougher.
1209
01:26:56,701 --> 01:26:58,498
But when I break
down and drink...
1210
01:26:58,670 --> 01:27:01,230
...is when this bar is
going to open again.
1211
01:27:01,406 --> 01:27:05,240
I don't ask any man to stick to
something I can't stick to myself...
1212
01:27:05,410 --> 01:27:08,311
...and that's the way it
will be in this regiment.
1213
01:27:16,754 --> 01:27:18,984
Gun no work. You fix.
1214
01:27:22,727 --> 01:27:24,888
Safety catch. See?
1215
01:27:25,063 --> 01:27:26,428
Here.
1216
01:28:05,870 --> 01:28:07,201
What did I tell you?
1217
01:28:07,372 --> 01:28:10,341
Them dirty, lying, flea-bitten
friendlies let him go.
1218
01:28:10,508 --> 01:28:14,740
Friendlies? Any Indian with $
75 is a friendly to Sharp.
1219
01:28:15,079 --> 01:28:16,307
Sergeant.
1220
01:28:16,481 --> 01:28:20,178
Put a stop to that rifle trading.
I want every Indian put outside.
1221
01:28:20,351 --> 01:28:22,751
- Very well.
- Have the trumpeter sound the call.
1222
01:28:22,920 --> 01:28:24,387
Yes, sir.
1223
01:28:25,523 --> 01:28:26,751
You know, Joe...
1224
01:28:26,924 --> 01:28:29,552
...in a way, I don't mind
that Indian getting off.
1225
01:28:29,727 --> 01:28:33,254
He's the only cavalryman I've seen around.
But we'll put a stop to that.
1226
01:28:35,733 --> 01:28:40,432
We're responsible for the protection
of 100,000 square miles of territory.
1227
01:28:40,605 --> 01:28:44,632
And against us are ranged thousands
of the finest light cavalry on earth.
1228
01:28:44,809 --> 01:28:46,902
I found that out this morning.
1229
01:28:47,078 --> 01:28:48,841
It's a big job, gentlemen.
1230
01:28:49,013 --> 01:28:51,106
And it's gonna need
a fine regiment.
1231
01:28:51,282 --> 01:28:55,412
Our job is to make this the finest
regiment that the United States ever saw.
1232
01:28:55,620 --> 01:29:02,025
I needn't tell most of you that a regiment
is more than just 600 disciplined soldiers.
1233
01:29:02,193 --> 01:29:03,854
Men die...
1234
01:29:04,162 --> 01:29:05,857
...but a regiment lives on.
1235
01:29:06,030 --> 01:29:09,557
Because a regiment has an
immortal soul of its own.
1236
01:29:09,734 --> 01:29:12,635
Well, the way to begin
is to find it...
1237
01:29:12,804 --> 01:29:16,433
...to find something that
belongs to us alone.
1238
01:29:16,607 --> 01:29:20,668
Something to give us that pride in
ourselves, that will make men endure...
1239
01:29:20,845 --> 01:29:22,745
...and if necessary, die...
1240
01:29:22,914 --> 01:29:24,245
...with their boots on.
1241
01:29:24,582 --> 01:29:26,049
As for the rest, it's easy.
1242
01:29:26,217 --> 01:29:27,980
Since it's only hard work...
1243
01:29:28,152 --> 01:29:31,451
...hard riding and
hard fighting.
1244
01:29:31,889 --> 01:29:33,948
Thank you. I know I
can count on you.
1245
01:29:34,692 --> 01:29:36,489
- Major Meyers, sir.
- Pleasure.
1246
01:29:36,661 --> 01:29:38,253
- Mr. Cooper.
- Cooper.
1247
01:29:38,429 --> 01:29:39,657
Captain Elliot, sir.
1248
01:29:39,831 --> 01:29:42,163
- Captain Thompson, sir.
- Thompson.
1249
01:29:42,333 --> 01:29:43,857
Butler, sir.
1250
01:29:44,035 --> 01:29:46,697
Butler. "Queen's Own" Butler.
1251
01:29:46,871 --> 01:29:49,567
- How did you get here?
- Become quite a bally Yankee.
1252
01:29:49,740 --> 01:29:53,301
Rode behind you at Hanover and
fancied I'd see some sport out West.
1253
01:29:53,678 --> 01:29:55,543
Well, I hope you do.
1254
01:29:55,713 --> 01:29:59,205
Do you know that you've haunted me
ever since I met you at Monroe?
1255
01:29:59,383 --> 01:30:02,910
- Haunted, sir?
- Yes. I've cursed you regularly.
1256
01:30:03,087 --> 01:30:06,056
Every time I tried to think of that song.
What was it?
1257
01:30:06,224 --> 01:30:07,748
Oh, "Garryowen"?
1258
01:30:07,925 --> 01:30:09,950
"Garryowen." Come
play it for us.
1259
01:30:10,127 --> 01:30:12,857
Excuse me, gentlemen. This
is an important song.
1260
01:32:44,882 --> 01:32:48,181
What are the blighters doing,
playing ring-around-the-rosey?
1261
01:32:48,352 --> 01:32:51,412
The dirty, moth-eaten...
1262
01:32:51,589 --> 01:32:53,682
It's a signal!
1263
01:32:56,694 --> 01:33:00,630
They're whupped! The dirty
buzzard eggs, they're whupped!
1264
01:33:00,798 --> 01:33:04,256
He wants a peace
powwow with Long Hair.
1265
01:33:13,210 --> 01:33:14,734
Long Hair.
1266
01:33:14,912 --> 01:33:16,379
Crazy Horse.
1267
01:33:16,547 --> 01:33:19,778
Crazy Horse, war chief
Sioux, speak with Long Hair.
1268
01:33:19,950 --> 01:33:21,713
War chief, great white father.
1269
01:33:21,886 --> 01:33:25,754
- I listen to my brother.
- My people want make peace.
1270
01:33:25,923 --> 01:33:28,289
They've lost many braves,
are tired of war.
1271
01:33:28,459 --> 01:33:30,450
They will give up
the plains forever.
1272
01:33:30,628 --> 01:33:33,426
They will give up their lodges
by the running streams.
1273
01:33:33,597 --> 01:33:36,930
They will give up their hunting
grounds where the buffalo graze.
1274
01:33:37,101 --> 01:33:38,762
They will give all up...
1275
01:33:38,936 --> 01:33:40,494
...but one place.
1276
01:33:40,671 --> 01:33:42,161
Speak. What is this place?
1277
01:33:42,339 --> 01:33:45,672
They will not give up
the Black Hills...
1278
01:33:45,843 --> 01:33:48,641
...for there, the spirits
of our fathers dwell...
1279
01:33:48,813 --> 01:33:51,941
...and there the gods
have made their tepees.
1280
01:33:52,116 --> 01:33:55,677
But all else that is my
people we give up...
1281
01:33:55,853 --> 01:33:57,445
...but Black Hills.
1282
01:33:57,621 --> 01:34:00,852
I will bear my brother's words
to the great white father.
1283
01:34:01,025 --> 01:34:03,892
Let Long Hair return with
word of great white father...
1284
01:34:04,061 --> 01:34:07,258
...that no white man will
set foot on sacred soil...
1285
01:34:07,431 --> 01:34:11,697
...and Crazy Horse and his brothers
will smoke peace pipe forever.
1286
01:34:12,169 --> 01:34:16,833
If the great white father gives
word to my brother's people...
1287
01:34:17,007 --> 01:34:20,340
...then Long Hair and his long
knives will defend Black Hills...
1288
01:34:20,511 --> 01:34:24,447
...against all white men
who seek to profane them.
1289
01:34:24,615 --> 01:34:26,310
That is the word of Long Hair.
1290
01:34:26,484 --> 01:34:30,250
Long Hair's word good one.
1291
01:34:30,421 --> 01:34:33,948
But the word of the great
white father is broken word.
1292
01:34:34,125 --> 01:34:35,854
Hear me now, Long Hair.
1293
01:34:36,026 --> 01:34:38,324
If this word broken now...
1294
01:34:38,496 --> 01:34:42,330
...not only Sioux, but the
Cheyenne, the Oglala...
1295
01:34:42,500 --> 01:34:45,560
...the Miniconjou, the
Blackfeet, the Sans Arcs...
1296
01:34:45,736 --> 01:34:49,365
...and every living tribe between
mountains and great waters...
1297
01:34:49,540 --> 01:34:52,031
...will gather in
one last battle.
1298
01:34:52,209 --> 01:34:54,370
It will be the end
of themselves...
1299
01:34:54,545 --> 01:34:58,140
...their gods, the spirits
of their fathers...
1300
01:34:58,315 --> 01:35:00,909
...and of their enemies.
1301
01:35:03,854 --> 01:35:05,583
Crazy Horse spoke.
1302
01:35:30,014 --> 01:35:33,575
We're here because the company's
facing bankruptcy on account of...
1303
01:35:33,751 --> 01:35:37,209
- ...the idiotic treaty with the Sioux.
- You don't have to tell me.
1304
01:35:37,388 --> 01:35:40,448
Last year I outfitted a handful
of settlers from 20 stores.
1305
01:35:40,624 --> 01:35:44,185
There'll be no settlers till the
railroad's pushed on. The only route...
1306
01:35:44,361 --> 01:35:47,228
...is through the Black Hills,
the gateway to the West.
1307
01:35:47,398 --> 01:35:51,129
A few thousand savages have stopped
the march of American civilization.
1308
01:35:51,302 --> 01:35:53,600
Why can't you do
something at Washington?
1309
01:35:53,771 --> 01:35:57,673
That was why I brought Taipe to
this job of special commissioner.
1310
01:35:57,842 --> 01:35:59,366
What is the job?
1311
01:35:59,543 --> 01:36:03,775
It's to coordinate the civil and military
administration of Indian territories.
1312
01:36:03,948 --> 01:36:06,349
While he's on the
ground, we can consider
1313
01:36:06,375 --> 01:36:08,774
local means of unlocking
the Black Hills gate.
1314
01:36:08,919 --> 01:36:10,978
Well, you'll find none here.
1315
01:36:11,155 --> 01:36:14,386
The 7th Cavalry has every pass
and river completely covered.
1316
01:36:14,558 --> 01:36:17,959
It's impossible to sneak an outfit through.
I have to know.
1317
01:36:18,128 --> 01:36:21,097
No doubt you do, but you're
talking about single outfits.
1318
01:36:21,265 --> 01:36:25,292
- Suppose there were thousands.
- Thousands? What would bring thousands...
1319
01:36:25,469 --> 01:36:26,731
...of outfits to Dakota?
1320
01:36:27,171 --> 01:36:29,537
- Gold.
- Gold?
1321
01:36:29,707 --> 01:36:32,267
Well, there's no gold
in the Black Hills.
1322
01:36:32,443 --> 01:36:35,571
Who can say what's to be found
in the Black Hills, huh?
1323
01:36:39,049 --> 01:36:43,349
Say, it'd bring them in in swarms, all
right. Start a second California gold rush.
1324
01:36:43,520 --> 01:36:45,954
But what about the Sioux?
1325
01:36:46,223 --> 01:36:49,454
That's where the commissioner comes in.
Treaty or no treaty...
1326
01:36:49,627 --> 01:36:52,653
...we cannot allow thousands
of Americans to be massacred.
1327
01:36:52,830 --> 01:36:55,321
The forces of General Crook
and General Terry...
1328
01:36:55,499 --> 01:36:57,763
...will move between
them and the Sioux.
1329
01:36:58,736 --> 01:37:02,297
Well, Ned, do you see any
practical objection?
1330
01:37:02,473 --> 01:37:05,101
- Only Custer.
- What do you mean?
1331
01:37:05,276 --> 01:37:07,972
- What can he do?
- You don't know Custer.
1332
01:37:08,145 --> 01:37:10,943
You get him mad, and there
isn't anything he won't do.
1333
01:37:11,115 --> 01:37:13,515
There isn't anything
his regiment won't do.
1334
01:37:13,684 --> 01:37:17,347
They could blockade Bismarck,
blow up the railroad bridges.
1335
01:37:17,521 --> 01:37:21,013
Then we'll get rid of Colonel Custer
as a first measure, eh, Taipe?
1336
01:37:21,191 --> 01:37:22,522
I'm all for that.
1337
01:37:22,693 --> 01:37:27,153
But I shouldn't advise doing
it through official channels.
1338
01:37:27,932 --> 01:37:32,892
I think I know how to get rid of Colonel
Custer to everybody's satisfaction.
1339
01:37:33,971 --> 01:37:37,372
- Turn out the guard! Commanding officer!
- Fall in!
1340
01:37:44,548 --> 01:37:47,676
Present arms!
1341
01:37:57,227 --> 01:38:00,025
Order arms!
1342
01:38:04,201 --> 01:38:07,864
- Hello, Roberts. How's your wife?
- Better, sir, thanks to Mrs. Custer.
1343
01:38:08,038 --> 01:38:09,938
Good, good. Now,
look, tomorrow...
1344
01:38:10,107 --> 01:38:12,716
...shine the squadron
up, bright and snappy.
1345
01:38:12,742 --> 01:38:14,626
I'm reviewing it for
the commissioner.
1346
01:38:14,778 --> 01:38:16,541
Without officers? Right, sir.
1347
01:38:22,586 --> 01:38:26,420
Stand over there. Let me look at you.
My word, you're lovelier than ever.
1348
01:38:28,392 --> 01:38:30,383
George, put me down.
We've got company.
1349
01:38:30,561 --> 01:38:32,995
- What?
- Yes. I've got a surprise for you.
1350
01:38:33,163 --> 01:38:34,858
A surprise?
1351
01:38:44,575 --> 01:38:47,339
Mrs. Taipe, may I present
my husband, General Custer.
1352
01:38:47,511 --> 01:38:49,911
- A pleasure.
- Mrs. Sharp, General Custer.
1353
01:38:50,080 --> 01:38:51,308
- How do you do?
- Madam.
1354
01:38:51,482 --> 01:38:53,712
And here are some old
friends of yours.
1355
01:38:53,884 --> 01:38:55,408
Well.
1356
01:38:56,754 --> 01:38:58,722
- What's this?
- Welcome home, colonel.
1357
01:38:58,889 --> 01:39:00,413
A little surprise for you.
1358
01:39:00,591 --> 01:39:03,788
Yes, this is a surprise. Haven't
seen you since you retired.
1359
01:39:03,961 --> 01:39:07,158
After the war, I found Army life
a trifle monotonous, Custer.
1360
01:39:07,331 --> 01:39:10,425
He's here as a special
commissioner, you know.
1361
01:39:10,601 --> 01:39:14,731
I should have paid my respects to you
as a representative of the government.
1362
01:39:14,905 --> 01:39:18,636
That's the regulation. But there's
no need to stand on ceremony here.
1363
01:39:18,809 --> 01:39:21,937
I congratulate you on the reputation
you've made for your regiment.
1364
01:39:22,146 --> 01:39:24,137
- Thank you.
- Let's drink a toast to it.
1365
01:39:24,314 --> 01:39:26,077
- Toast to the 7th Cavalry.
- Right.
1366
01:39:29,453 --> 01:39:32,047
You're not gonna drink
this toast in water.
1367
01:39:32,689 --> 01:39:34,987
Yes, this is the drink
of the 7th Cavalry.
1368
01:39:35,159 --> 01:39:38,026
Well, to the sober 7th Cavalry.
1369
01:39:39,029 --> 01:39:41,998
I'm sorry you won't see the
whole regiment on parade.
1370
01:39:42,166 --> 01:39:45,897
Most of it's in the Black Hills. But
I can promise you that tomorrow...
1371
01:39:46,070 --> 01:39:51,303
...you'll take the salute from one of the
finest squadrons of cavalry ever in review.
1372
01:39:51,475 --> 01:39:54,342
There'll be no officers on parade?
Very irregular, sir.
1373
01:39:54,511 --> 01:39:58,174
That's because I want you to see the
men who fought 36 engagements...
1374
01:39:58,348 --> 01:40:01,374
...who cleared and pacified
this frontier single-handed...
1375
01:40:01,552 --> 01:40:05,852
...who sweated and starved day
after day against impossible odds.
1376
01:40:06,023 --> 01:40:09,481
- There's no denying their record.
- It was an idea that made them.
1377
01:40:09,660 --> 01:40:11,992
An idea and a song.
1378
01:40:12,162 --> 01:40:15,825
You should have seen them the day
they were mustered in. Derelicts...
1379
01:40:15,999 --> 01:40:19,196
...criminals who joined because
they couldn't make a living.
1380
01:40:19,369 --> 01:40:21,303
But wait till you see them now.
1381
01:40:21,472 --> 01:40:26,239
Wait till you see what discipline, devotion
to duty and human understanding can do.
1382
01:40:26,410 --> 01:40:30,244
You'll see men who aren't afraid to
look death in the face with pride.
1383
01:40:30,414 --> 01:40:32,970
Not for any measly $
13 a month, but just
1384
01:40:32,996 --> 01:40:35,342
because they've got pride
in their regiment.
1385
01:40:35,486 --> 01:40:37,920
Go take the salute.
You've good reason to.
1386
01:40:38,088 --> 01:40:41,615
You and every other civilian
in the United States.
1387
01:41:07,384 --> 01:41:11,252
- What's the meaning of this outrage?
- I think I know.
1388
01:41:18,562 --> 01:41:20,928
If I was you,
Mr. Sharp, I'd vamoose.
1389
01:41:21,198 --> 01:41:24,634
- Custer's liable to go loco about this.
- I'm not getting out.
1390
01:41:24,801 --> 01:41:29,170
Have those bung-starters handy
when Goldilocks arrives.
1391
01:41:29,339 --> 01:41:31,068
He'll never close
this bar again.
1392
01:41:38,148 --> 01:41:40,116
This is none of your
affair, Custer.
1393
01:41:40,284 --> 01:41:43,617
We... We opened by authority
of the commissioner.
1394
01:41:43,787 --> 01:41:47,450
The drinks were free to the
men in honor of his visit.
1395
01:42:06,777 --> 01:42:11,077
Stop it! Stop it, Custer! You're destroying
private property. It's an order!
1396
01:42:11,248 --> 01:42:13,842
- This bar opened by my authority.
- Your authority?
1397
01:42:14,017 --> 01:42:17,180
If your men are drunken sots,
that's your responsibility.
1398
01:42:17,354 --> 01:42:19,083
Sots?
1399
01:42:19,756 --> 01:42:21,951
You cheap, bootlicking...
1400
01:42:22,125 --> 01:42:24,889
You contemptible parasite!
1401
01:42:33,937 --> 01:42:36,201
I'll see that he's
relieved of his command.
1402
01:42:36,373 --> 01:42:39,308
He'll be in Washington
for a court martial.
1403
01:42:42,646 --> 01:42:45,342
I wish you'd stopped in
Chicago and seen Uncle Phil.
1404
01:42:45,515 --> 01:42:49,713
We would only have been in Washington one
day later, and he might've helped you.
1405
01:42:49,886 --> 01:42:52,446
I don't think anyone
can help me now.
1406
01:42:52,623 --> 01:42:55,786
I struck a representative
of the government.
1407
01:42:55,959 --> 01:42:57,221
And I'd do it again.
1408
01:42:57,394 --> 01:43:00,693
When the facts are known, who in
all the world could blame you?
1409
01:43:00,864 --> 01:43:02,661
- You.
- I?
1410
01:43:03,000 --> 01:43:04,991
Yes, I should have
thought of you.
1411
01:43:05,168 --> 01:43:08,729
This mess has made me realize
how selfish I've been.
1412
01:43:08,905 --> 01:43:10,270
My dear.
1413
01:43:10,440 --> 01:43:13,841
Taking you away from
your home, comfort...
1414
01:43:14,011 --> 01:43:15,569
- ...peace of mind.
- Darling...
1415
01:43:15,746 --> 01:43:19,147
...I knew what I was doing
when I married you.
1416
01:43:19,316 --> 01:43:22,012
But I didn't know what
I was doing to you.
1417
01:43:22,185 --> 01:43:25,814
- I've made you give up everything.
- I love you.
1418
01:43:27,157 --> 01:43:30,540
Springfield! Five-minute
stop, five minutes.
1419
01:43:30,566 --> 01:43:33,417
Why don't you get a
breath of fresh air?
1420
01:43:33,563 --> 01:43:35,599
No, I don't think so.
There may be
1421
01:43:35,625 --> 01:43:37,991
reporters around, and I
don't want to see anyone.
1422
01:43:38,135 --> 01:43:40,729
Is there anything I can get
you, magazine, cigars?
1423
01:43:40,904 --> 01:43:44,499
Nothing. Maybe a newspaper. You
better take a little walk yourself.
1424
01:43:44,675 --> 01:43:46,734
You've been cooped
up here long enough.
1425
01:43:48,945 --> 01:43:51,277
- Papers, papers.
- Paper.
1426
01:43:51,448 --> 01:43:55,407
- Have you a Chicago or Washington paper?
- Chicago Record Herald, just out.
1427
01:43:55,585 --> 01:44:00,215
- All about the big gold strike in Black Hills.
- The Black Hills in Dakota?
1428
01:44:00,390 --> 01:44:02,881
Yes. It's bigger than
the one in California.
1429
01:44:08,532 --> 01:44:09,965
Look at this.
1430
01:44:10,133 --> 01:44:11,760
Look.
1431
01:44:11,935 --> 01:44:13,562
Gold.
1432
01:44:13,737 --> 01:44:16,103
"Strike in the Black Hills.
1433
01:44:16,273 --> 01:44:20,232
The stampede started when an Indian
squaw tendered gold for supplies...
1434
01:44:20,410 --> 01:44:24,244
...in the Western Railroad Land and
Trading Company at Fort Lincoln."
1435
01:44:25,716 --> 01:44:29,152
"Thousands of people rushing
into the Black Hills."
1436
01:44:29,419 --> 01:44:33,253
That's what Mrs. Taipe meant. She said
thousands were coming to Dakota...
1437
01:44:33,423 --> 01:44:35,152
...and advised me to buy stock.
1438
01:44:35,325 --> 01:44:38,624
- Mrs. Taipe said that?
- Yes, the day you came back to the fort.
1439
01:44:38,795 --> 01:44:41,320
I didn't repeat it. I
didn't think it important.
1440
01:44:41,498 --> 01:44:43,591
The day I came back
to the fort...
1441
01:44:43,767 --> 01:44:46,861
...Mrs. Taipe knew then that
these people were coming.
1442
01:44:47,037 --> 01:44:48,402
But, Libby, don't you see?
1443
01:44:48,572 --> 01:44:51,006
This Indian woman came
into the fort yesterday.
1444
01:44:51,174 --> 01:44:54,371
- Then that must mean...
- There's no gold. It's a conspiracy...
1445
01:44:54,544 --> 01:44:59,846
...to break the peace treaty. Yes, and what
happened at the review was a part of it.
1446
01:45:00,016 --> 01:45:02,746
They had to get rid
of me, and no wonder.
1447
01:45:02,919 --> 01:45:06,320
I'd have hanged them all from the
fort gates, Taipe and the rest.
1448
01:45:06,490 --> 01:45:08,856
I'd have burnt the
railroad bridges.
1449
01:45:09,292 --> 01:45:12,591
And I gave my word to Crazy
Horse that the Sioux...
1450
01:45:12,763 --> 01:45:14,731
The Sioux.
1451
01:45:14,898 --> 01:45:17,662
Why, Libby, those fools don't
know what they've done.
1452
01:45:17,834 --> 01:45:21,395
Conductor. Conductor.
1453
01:45:39,389 --> 01:45:42,256
I'm saying that the commissioner
is Sharp's bought man.
1454
01:45:42,426 --> 01:45:44,121
- He has an interest...
- I object.
1455
01:45:44,294 --> 01:45:46,228
Objection sustained.
1456
01:45:46,396 --> 01:45:50,992
I'm sorry, but you must try to confine your
testimony to actual proof of conspiracy.
1457
01:45:51,168 --> 01:45:54,660
I'm here to tell you Sharp's company
tricked thousands of people...
1458
01:45:54,838 --> 01:45:57,864
...into violating Indian
territory with a tale of gold.
1459
01:45:58,041 --> 01:46:01,306
- And Taipe was a party to that plot.
- That's an accusation.
1460
01:46:01,478 --> 01:46:03,207
What facts can prove it?
1461
01:46:03,380 --> 01:46:06,406
Weeks before there was talk
of this so-called gold...
1462
01:46:06,583 --> 01:46:08,448
...Taipe's wife
said that people...
1463
01:46:08,618 --> 01:46:11,951
- I object to such testimony. It's hearsay.
- Sustained.
1464
01:46:12,122 --> 01:46:15,148
We can hear no evidence of that nature.
It's inadmissible.
1465
01:46:15,325 --> 01:46:16,553
Inadmissible?
1466
01:46:16,726 --> 01:46:20,184
Do you think you'll keep me from
testifying by legal skulduggery?
1467
01:46:20,363 --> 01:46:23,560
- Do you think I'd lie?
- No, colonel, but you're not a lawyer.
1468
01:46:23,733 --> 01:46:27,294
The testimony you're giving is
hearsay, the words of another person.
1469
01:46:27,471 --> 01:46:29,166
- It's never admissible.
- Never?
1470
01:46:29,339 --> 01:46:31,773
Except in the case of a
dying declaration...
1471
01:46:31,942 --> 01:46:35,070
...where words are spoken in
knowledge of approaching death.
1472
01:46:35,245 --> 01:46:39,511
You'll have plenty of evidence within a
few weeks. The treaty's been broken.
1473
01:46:39,683 --> 01:46:42,777
Within weeks, thousands will
be massacred in Black Hills.
1474
01:46:42,953 --> 01:46:45,421
That's why I blasted
this open in the press.
1475
01:46:45,589 --> 01:46:50,083
- Now you talk about legal technicalities.
- There need be no apprehension, gentlemen.
1476
01:46:50,293 --> 01:46:54,024
Generals Terry and Crook have orders
to concentrate forces in Yellowstone.
1477
01:46:54,197 --> 01:46:57,530
Three thousand American soldiers
should be a match for 3000 Sioux.
1478
01:46:57,734 --> 01:47:01,693
Why, you fool. Those troops are
infantry, useless against Indians.
1479
01:47:01,872 --> 01:47:04,102
And they won't find
any 3000 Sioux.
1480
01:47:04,274 --> 01:47:07,175
The sanctuary of the entire
red race is being violated.
1481
01:47:07,344 --> 01:47:10,541
They'll find every tribe in the
West ready to overwhelm them.
1482
01:47:10,714 --> 01:47:14,548
Not only Sioux, but Cheyenne, Blackfeet,
Sans Arcs, all the rest of them.
1483
01:47:14,718 --> 01:47:17,243
And who's to blame them?
Not I, gentlemen.
1484
01:47:17,420 --> 01:47:21,618
If I were an Indian, I'd fight beside
Crazy Horse to the last drop of my blood.
1485
01:47:21,791 --> 01:47:25,249
It's in Custer's interest to be alarmist.
He's relieved of command...
1486
01:47:25,428 --> 01:47:28,727
...awaiting court martial, but the War
Department doesn't share his fears.
1487
01:47:28,899 --> 01:47:33,268
Especially as among the forces ordered into
action is the celebrated 7th Cavalry...
1488
01:47:33,470 --> 01:47:37,201
...which boasts itself able to
defend the frontier single-handed.
1489
01:47:37,374 --> 01:47:41,401
Colonel Custer, have you any further
testimony to place before the committee?
1490
01:47:44,981 --> 01:47:46,414
None.
1491
01:47:46,583 --> 01:47:49,211
Then I move we
adjourn, gentlemen.
1492
01:48:08,204 --> 01:48:10,001
Was it that bad?
1493
01:48:11,141 --> 01:48:13,735
I'll start assembling
a division at once.
1494
01:48:13,910 --> 01:48:19,940
But it'll take time, Custer. Time. Troops
on the frontier will have to be sacrificed.
1495
01:48:20,717 --> 01:48:22,480
Including the 7th Cavalry.
1496
01:48:22,652 --> 01:48:24,586
What else can I do?
1497
01:48:25,822 --> 01:48:27,449
There's this.
1498
01:48:27,624 --> 01:48:29,353
Get my court martial postponed.
1499
01:48:29,526 --> 01:48:31,187
Get my command restored to me.
1500
01:48:31,561 --> 01:48:33,290
And let you commit suicide?
1501
01:48:33,463 --> 01:48:34,930
No, thank you.
1502
01:48:35,098 --> 01:48:36,690
You don't owe anybody that.
1503
01:48:37,100 --> 01:48:40,399
Sheridan, do you remember what
you said to me after Winchester?
1504
01:48:40,570 --> 01:48:43,437
You said, "If there's ever
anything you want from me...
1505
01:48:43,607 --> 01:48:46,337
...including my right arm,
don't ask, just take it."
1506
01:48:47,077 --> 01:48:51,036
I won't do it. You don't owe
those bloodsuckers anything.
1507
01:48:51,948 --> 01:48:53,848
I'm asking you, now.
1508
01:48:55,018 --> 01:48:57,282
There's Libby to be considered.
1509
01:48:57,454 --> 01:48:59,684
I wouldn't do it if I could.
But I can't.
1510
01:49:00,390 --> 01:49:02,722
Taipe would never
let it get through.
1511
01:49:02,892 --> 01:49:05,292
The only man who could
do it is the president.
1512
01:49:05,462 --> 01:49:08,727
Since these charges have all but
wrecked his administration...
1513
01:49:08,898 --> 01:49:12,129
...Ulysses S. Grant hates
the sound of your name.
1514
01:49:15,338 --> 01:49:16,635
Colonel Custer.
1515
01:49:16,806 --> 01:49:21,334
I regret the president declines to see you.
He instructs that any business you have...
1516
01:49:21,511 --> 01:49:24,139
...shall be conducted
through the War Department.
1517
01:49:37,794 --> 01:49:41,025
I'll remind you, sir, that I'm
president of the United States.
1518
01:49:41,197 --> 01:49:43,757
I'm not here to see
the president, Grant.
1519
01:49:44,067 --> 01:49:45,694
I'm here to see a soldier.
1520
01:49:45,869 --> 01:49:48,064
You've caused plenty
of trouble, Custer.
1521
01:49:48,238 --> 01:49:50,035
Sticking your nose
into politics.
1522
01:49:50,206 --> 01:49:53,801
- I want my regiment back.
- All you'll get from me is a court martial.
1523
01:49:53,977 --> 01:49:57,435
To the devil with a court martial.
I want my regiment back, Grant.
1524
01:49:57,847 --> 01:50:00,042
Tell me why I should
give it to you.
1525
01:50:01,117 --> 01:50:03,244
I'll tell you why.
1526
01:50:03,420 --> 01:50:06,321
Because you know how a man
feels when he's broken...
1527
01:50:06,489 --> 01:50:09,652
...when he's left behind and
his regiment's marching out.
1528
01:50:10,060 --> 01:50:12,051
You know how he feels, Grant...
1529
01:50:12,228 --> 01:50:14,458
...because you had a
taste of it yourself.
1530
01:50:35,985 --> 01:50:37,680
Get out.
1531
01:50:57,373 --> 01:50:59,102
All right.
1532
01:51:15,959 --> 01:51:18,723
My orders was to close up
as soon as you got back.
1533
01:51:18,895 --> 01:51:20,760
That's all right.
1534
01:51:20,930 --> 01:51:22,727
I just got in.
1535
01:51:22,899 --> 01:51:24,924
And am I glad to see you.
1536
01:51:25,101 --> 01:51:27,126
I'm going bughouse
in this joint.
1537
01:51:27,303 --> 01:51:31,535
Since you've been relieved of command, not
a soldier has set foot in this place.
1538
01:51:32,008 --> 01:51:33,873
Yes?
1539
01:51:34,043 --> 01:51:35,874
Indeed.
1540
01:51:37,814 --> 01:51:40,305
That's all right. You
needn't bother closing up.
1541
01:51:40,483 --> 01:51:43,748
Tell Mr. Sharp I want to see him.
And leave us alone together.
1542
01:51:43,920 --> 01:51:47,185
Oh, it's all right. There
won't be any disturbance.
1543
01:51:53,129 --> 01:51:55,893
Say, Custer's outside,
wants to see you.
1544
01:52:20,356 --> 01:52:22,017
I...
1545
01:52:22,192 --> 01:52:26,356
I gave orders to close the bar as soon
as I heard you took command again.
1546
01:52:26,529 --> 01:52:28,429
That's all right, Sharp.
1547
01:52:30,400 --> 01:52:33,597
Remember I told you once that
the day I took a drink...
1548
01:52:33,770 --> 01:52:36,261
- ...you could open the bar up?
- Yeah.
1549
01:52:36,439 --> 01:52:38,964
Well, I feel like
drinking tonight.
1550
01:52:39,142 --> 01:52:41,406
Things have been pretty bad.
1551
01:52:42,412 --> 01:52:44,209
You wanna join me?
1552
01:52:44,380 --> 01:52:46,905
Why, sure, sure. Why not?
1553
01:52:47,083 --> 01:52:50,416
- We'll let bygones be bygones, huh?
- Sure.
1554
01:52:58,761 --> 01:53:01,662
Say, hitting it kind
of hard, aren't you?
1555
01:53:02,065 --> 01:53:05,228
No point in half measures.
Drink up.
1556
01:53:18,882 --> 01:53:21,874
I... I hear the 7th's
marching out this morning...
1557
01:53:22,051 --> 01:53:25,987
...to make contact with Crook and
Terry at the Little Bighorn.
1558
01:53:26,155 --> 01:53:27,850
Yes.
1559
01:53:28,558 --> 01:53:30,890
The 7th's marching out.
1560
01:53:32,395 --> 01:53:34,522
Let's drink to the 7th.
1561
01:53:42,906 --> 01:53:44,271
Let's drink to them again.
1562
01:53:44,474 --> 01:53:47,238
Last time I drank it
in water, remember?
1563
01:53:47,410 --> 01:53:49,970
Well. Wait a minute, you...
1564
01:53:51,080 --> 01:53:52,479
Drink it.
1565
01:54:08,031 --> 01:54:10,509
If the outfits don't
fight through, you're
1566
01:54:10,535 --> 01:54:12,857
liable to have a lot of
Sioux on your hands.
1567
01:54:13,136 --> 01:54:14,433
Oh, yes.
1568
01:54:14,604 --> 01:54:16,834
Yes, quite a lot
of Sioux, Sharp.
1569
01:54:19,809 --> 01:54:22,778
But the greater the odds,
the greater the glory.
1570
01:54:23,346 --> 01:54:26,543
Come on, Sharp. Let's
drink to glory.
1571
01:54:34,257 --> 01:54:37,590
You always were a great
one for glory, Custer.
1572
01:54:38,227 --> 01:54:41,196
Remember...? Remember that day
you came to West Point...
1573
01:54:41,364 --> 01:54:43,696
...and you talked to
me about the statues?
1574
01:54:43,866 --> 01:54:46,130
Yes, yes, I remember.
1575
01:54:46,302 --> 01:54:48,532
Well, you got glory.
1576
01:54:48,705 --> 01:54:50,935
And what did glory get you?
1577
01:54:51,107 --> 01:54:52,734
A two-bit job...
1578
01:54:52,909 --> 01:54:56,902
...and a... And a court martial.
That's all.
1579
01:54:57,080 --> 01:54:59,708
Well, that's not enough.
1580
01:54:59,882 --> 01:55:03,374
Now we're gonna drink to something
that's... That's worth having.
1581
01:55:03,553 --> 01:55:07,785
Something they'll kiss
your feet for having.
1582
01:55:13,763 --> 01:55:15,958
Here's to money.
1583
01:55:16,132 --> 01:55:19,659
- And long may she jingle.
- Money.
1584
01:55:24,507 --> 01:55:26,805
You may be right
about money, Sharp.
1585
01:55:26,976 --> 01:55:28,534
Quite right.
1586
01:55:28,711 --> 01:55:32,112
- But there's one thing to be said for glory.
- And what's that?
1587
01:55:35,051 --> 01:55:37,542
You can take glory with you...
1588
01:55:37,720 --> 01:55:40,120
...when it's your time to go.
1589
01:56:28,404 --> 01:56:30,065
California.
1590
01:57:09,846 --> 01:57:12,212
Well, now, let's see.
1591
01:57:12,381 --> 01:57:14,281
Anything I've forgotten?
1592
01:57:15,084 --> 01:57:17,917
- Field glasses?
- Yep.
1593
01:57:18,087 --> 01:57:20,146
- Compass.
- Got it.
1594
01:57:20,323 --> 01:57:23,815
- Your watch.
- Watch, no.
1595
01:57:32,635 --> 01:57:35,536
You know, they ought to make
you quartermaster general.
1596
01:57:35,705 --> 01:57:39,641
Every time I go into the field, I'm the
best-equipped man in the regiment.
1597
01:57:42,078 --> 01:57:43,568
Oh, look at that.
1598
01:57:45,948 --> 01:57:47,506
Broken.
1599
01:57:48,317 --> 01:57:50,478
- What?
- The chain.
1600
01:57:50,653 --> 01:57:52,621
I won't be able to
take this with me.
1601
01:57:52,788 --> 01:57:55,518
It'll be the first time
you've gone in without it.
1602
01:57:55,691 --> 01:57:59,218
Yes. Well, there's no
time to have it fixed...
1603
01:57:59,395 --> 01:58:02,159
...and I don't want to take
a chance on losing it.
1604
01:58:02,331 --> 01:58:04,128
I'll leave it here.
1605
01:58:08,004 --> 01:58:10,063
Not much more time.
1606
01:58:14,377 --> 01:58:16,436
Here's your cartridge belt.
1607
01:58:17,613 --> 01:58:21,879
You know, I'm sure you're the first
soldier that ever became a general...
1608
01:58:22,051 --> 01:58:23,814
...without letting his belt out.
1609
01:58:23,986 --> 01:58:28,355
But you wait until we get that staff job
in Washington, after this campaign's over.
1610
01:58:28,524 --> 01:58:32,358
I'm gonna grow a big tummy on me like
General Winfield Scott, you know.
1611
01:58:32,528 --> 01:58:35,463
And we'll grow fat
and happy together.
1612
01:58:35,631 --> 01:58:37,462
- Together.
- And people will say:
1613
01:58:37,633 --> 01:58:40,329
"Don't tell me life in the
Dakotas was hardship.
1614
01:58:40,503 --> 01:58:44,803
Look at General and Mrs. Custer. They
certainly grew fat and happy on it."
1615
01:58:45,942 --> 01:58:47,705
You...
1616
01:58:47,877 --> 01:58:50,778
You have been happy here,
haven't you, Libby?
1617
01:58:52,448 --> 01:58:54,507
Don't I look happy?
1618
01:58:56,118 --> 01:58:57,915
Well, now. Let's see, what else?
1619
01:58:58,087 --> 01:59:00,146
Oh, my orders.
1620
01:59:00,323 --> 01:59:03,292
- I put them in that drawer, over there.
- I'll get it.
1621
01:59:12,735 --> 01:59:13,963
Well, what's this?
1622
01:59:14,971 --> 01:59:18,338
- "My life with General Custer."
- Oh, darling, that's my diary.
1623
01:59:18,507 --> 01:59:21,442
- I didn't know you kept one.
- It's a record of our life.
1624
01:59:21,611 --> 01:59:26,207
It wouldn't interest you. Just silly
things that seem important to a woman.
1625
01:59:26,382 --> 01:59:29,545
"Tomorrow, my husband leaves..."
1626
01:59:29,719 --> 01:59:35,180
...and I cannot help but feel that
my last happy days are ended.
1627
01:59:35,358 --> 01:59:38,816
A premonition of disaster
such as I have never known...
1628
01:59:38,995 --> 01:59:41,054
...is weighing me down.
1629
01:59:42,365 --> 01:59:48,304
I try to shut it into my heart,
but it is almost unbearable.
1630
01:59:48,704 --> 01:59:53,869
"I pray God I be not asked
to walk on alone."
1631
01:59:58,481 --> 02:00:01,746
You know, I probably wrote
that, or something like it...
1632
02:00:01,917 --> 02:00:03,384
...every time you went away.
1633
02:00:04,020 --> 02:00:06,318
Even for a day's journey.
1634
02:00:06,489 --> 02:00:08,753
You know how foolish women are.
1635
02:00:09,225 --> 02:00:14,094
Every parting has its own
fears and anxieties.
1636
02:00:17,500 --> 02:00:19,161
Of course.
1637
02:00:19,335 --> 02:00:21,428
I often feel like that myself.
1638
02:00:21,604 --> 02:00:25,199
But it... It has its
bright side too.
1639
02:00:25,374 --> 02:00:29,470
The more sadness in parting,
the more joy in the reunion.
1640
02:00:36,385 --> 02:00:38,512
Boots and saddles.
1641
02:00:41,924 --> 02:00:43,949
Goodbye.
1642
02:01:03,579 --> 02:01:06,139
Walking through life
with you, ma'am...
1643
02:01:07,016 --> 02:01:09,951
...has been a very
gracious thing.
1644
02:01:47,189 --> 02:01:50,352
Attention!
1645
02:01:50,526 --> 02:01:51,993
Sir, the regiment is formed.
1646
02:01:53,362 --> 02:01:54,590
Forward...
1647
02:01:54,764 --> 02:01:56,595
...ho!
1648
02:02:13,616 --> 02:02:15,447
Scouts out.
1649
02:03:20,049 --> 02:03:23,610
- Gray Eagle.
- Long Hair. Black Hills.
1650
02:03:23,986 --> 02:03:26,216
Go to lodge of Sitting Bull.
1651
02:03:26,388 --> 02:03:29,380
Let him call Sioux
chiefs to war council.
1652
02:03:51,847 --> 02:03:54,077
Halt!
1653
02:03:59,889 --> 02:04:02,517
Meet us on the Little
Bighorn at sunup.
1654
02:04:20,342 --> 02:04:23,243
Well, partner, the
scouts are back.
1655
02:04:23,579 --> 02:04:25,308
What's the report?
1656
02:04:25,781 --> 02:04:28,909
- Any news of Crook's column?
- Plenty of them, all scalped.
1657
02:04:30,886 --> 02:04:33,719
- Dead long?
- Oh, about a week, I reckon.
1658
02:04:33,889 --> 02:04:38,053
Crazy Horse attacked Crook's outfit
coming down a stream and massacred them.
1659
02:04:38,227 --> 02:04:42,288
And then Crook, he hightailed it back
to where he come from, Crook did.
1660
02:04:42,464 --> 02:04:44,523
He got away?
1661
02:04:44,700 --> 02:04:45,997
Where's Crazy Horse now?
1662
02:04:46,569 --> 02:04:51,529
Camped on the other side of Little Bighorn.
Headed to massacre Terry's outfit.
1663
02:04:53,475 --> 02:04:55,033
Then he's between us.
1664
02:04:55,210 --> 02:04:58,475
And I can't reach Terry in time.
1665
02:04:58,847 --> 02:05:00,610
Crazy Horse must
know we're here.
1666
02:05:00,783 --> 02:05:06,119
More darn Indians camped over on Little
Bighorn than grasshoppers in a cornfield.
1667
02:05:06,288 --> 02:05:09,553
Every kind of a goldarn
Indian you can think of!
1668
02:05:09,725 --> 02:05:13,627
You know, partner, we better vamoose
out of here, good and pronto.
1669
02:05:13,796 --> 02:05:15,627
We're not vamoosing.
1670
02:05:15,798 --> 02:05:17,060
I'm going to attack.
1671
02:05:17,800 --> 02:05:19,028
Attack?
1672
02:05:19,702 --> 02:05:21,067
It's Terry or us.
1673
02:05:21,236 --> 02:05:24,000
What chance has he got against
thousands of Indians?
1674
02:05:25,908 --> 02:05:28,308
What...? What better
chance have you got?
1675
02:05:29,211 --> 02:05:31,645
It's a cavalry job, Joe.
1676
02:05:31,981 --> 02:05:33,846
I can do more damage.
1677
02:05:34,016 --> 02:05:35,881
And if I can do enough...
1678
02:05:36,051 --> 02:05:40,385
...it'll give Terry a chance to stand them
off until Sheridan comes from Bismarck.
1679
02:05:40,556 --> 02:05:43,150
I'm wondering if I'm ever
gonna get to California.
1680
02:05:44,493 --> 02:05:49,795
- Tell Mr. Butler I want to see him.
- All right, partner. I mean, yes, sir.
1681
02:06:03,278 --> 02:06:06,076
- You sent for me, sir?
- Yes, Butler.
1682
02:06:06,248 --> 02:06:08,808
Take this letter into
Fort Lincoln tonight.
1683
02:06:08,984 --> 02:06:11,612
- Me? Tonight?
- Tonight.
1684
02:06:11,787 --> 02:06:13,550
- It's important.
- Must be...
1685
02:06:13,722 --> 02:06:18,182
...if it needs your bally adjutant
to play postman at a time like this.
1686
02:06:18,360 --> 02:06:21,227
Why are you asking me
to go back with it?
1687
02:06:22,898 --> 02:06:26,595
Well, for one thing, you're an
Englishman, not an American.
1688
02:06:26,769 --> 02:06:29,431
Not an American? What do
you Yankees think you are?
1689
02:06:29,605 --> 02:06:32,733
The only real Americans are on
the other side of the hill...
1690
02:06:32,908 --> 02:06:34,535
...with feathers in their hair.
1691
02:06:35,844 --> 02:06:37,573
You're probably
right about that.
1692
02:06:37,746 --> 02:06:39,737
But there's 6000 of them...
1693
02:06:39,915 --> 02:06:42,475
...and less than 600 of us.
1694
02:06:42,851 --> 02:06:45,285
The regiment's being
sacrificed, Butler.
1695
02:06:45,454 --> 02:06:48,855
I wouldn't want to see a foreigner
butchered in a deal like this.
1696
02:06:49,024 --> 02:06:51,424
Sporting of you to
think of it that way.
1697
02:06:51,593 --> 02:06:55,552
I'll remind you, sir, I'm a member
of the mess of the 7th U.S. Cavalry.
1698
02:06:55,731 --> 02:06:59,758
Fancy walking into the service club
in Piccadilly if the regiment...
1699
02:06:59,935 --> 02:07:02,631
Get somebody else to post
your blinking letter.
1700
02:07:02,938 --> 02:07:04,838
Thanks, Queen's Own.
1701
02:07:05,007 --> 02:07:06,406
Just so long as you know.
1702
02:07:06,909 --> 02:07:09,537
I'll get someone else.
1703
02:07:56,458 --> 02:07:58,187
You'll pay for this, Custer.
1704
02:07:58,360 --> 02:08:02,228
There's a law in this country against
abduction. You'll go to jail for it.
1705
02:08:02,598 --> 02:08:04,498
Maybe, Sharp, maybe.
1706
02:08:04,666 --> 02:08:07,863
What do you think you're doing?
Cut me loose.
1707
02:08:16,044 --> 02:08:18,512
Say, what is all this?
What does it mean?
1708
02:08:18,680 --> 02:08:21,672
- It means you're free.
- Free?
1709
02:08:22,151 --> 02:08:24,346
I don't know where I
am, what day it is.
1710
02:08:24,887 --> 02:08:27,151
It's about dawn on
the 25th of June.
1711
02:08:27,322 --> 02:08:32,487
You're on the Rosebud Ridge above Little
Bighorn River. The way home's due east.
1712
02:08:32,661 --> 02:08:35,858
The way home? From
the Little Bighorn?
1713
02:08:36,031 --> 02:08:39,023
Why, this whole country's
swarming with Sioux!
1714
02:08:39,201 --> 02:08:41,101
That's right, Sharp, it is.
1715
02:08:41,570 --> 02:08:45,529
Why, it's murder. What
chance will I have?
1716
02:08:45,707 --> 02:08:48,676
About the same chance as the
thousands of poor devils...
1717
02:08:48,844 --> 02:08:52,007
...you sent in here with that
lying tale about the gold.
1718
02:08:53,582 --> 02:08:56,346
I say it's murder. I won't go.
1719
02:08:56,585 --> 02:08:58,849
You don't have to, Sharp.
1720
02:08:59,021 --> 02:09:00,386
It's for you to choose.
1721
02:09:01,290 --> 02:09:03,349
What do you mean?
1722
02:09:06,495 --> 02:09:08,156
You mean...
1723
02:09:08,430 --> 02:09:12,093
- You mean you'll leave me here?
- No.
1724
02:09:12,334 --> 02:09:16,600
The regiment rides in about an hour.
You can ride with it if you want.
1725
02:09:17,039 --> 02:09:19,200
Where is the regiment riding?
1726
02:09:19,608 --> 02:09:21,599
To hell, Sharp...
1727
02:09:21,777 --> 02:09:23,574
...or to glory.
1728
02:09:23,745 --> 02:09:26,475
It depends on one's
point of view.
1729
02:10:15,397 --> 02:10:16,762
Not dead long.
1730
02:10:17,266 --> 02:10:18,699
Big war party go.
1731
02:10:19,534 --> 02:10:21,161
Sioux!
1732
02:10:29,511 --> 02:10:31,638
Forward rank, ho!
1733
02:10:44,459 --> 02:10:46,893
Draw saber!
1734
02:10:51,166 --> 02:10:52,827
Charge!
1735
02:12:14,716 --> 02:12:15,944
Fight on foot!
1736
02:14:40,896 --> 02:14:43,296
You dirty yellowbellies!
1737
02:14:43,465 --> 02:14:46,730
Oh, looks like I'll
never get to...
1738
02:15:12,594 --> 02:15:14,824
Maybe you were right...
1739
02:15:15,230 --> 02:15:16,959
...about glory.
1740
02:15:58,206 --> 02:16:00,800
But for the desperate attack
of the 7th Cavalry...
1741
02:16:00,976 --> 02:16:04,343
...Terry's force would've been
wiped out, squatters massacred...
1742
02:16:04,512 --> 02:16:07,606
...the whole frontier overrun,
Bismarck itself destroyed.
1743
02:16:07,782 --> 02:16:11,343
I'll see that the regiment gets
due recognition from Congress.
1744
02:16:11,519 --> 02:16:14,386
Let me remind you that all
Custer said came true.
1745
02:16:14,556 --> 02:16:17,354
Every Indian gathered to
defend the Black Hills...
1746
02:16:17,525 --> 02:16:20,926
...and the troops which you sent
against them were overwhelmed.
1747
02:16:21,162 --> 02:16:24,461
The public has begun to wonder
if some of the other things...
1748
02:16:24,633 --> 02:16:27,329
...he tried to say might
not have been true.
1749
02:16:27,502 --> 02:16:29,902
By what authority do you
talk to me like this?
1750
02:16:30,071 --> 02:16:32,539
By authority of the U.S.
president.
1751
02:16:32,707 --> 02:16:36,370
He had an opportunity to tell everything
at the congressional inquiry.
1752
02:16:36,544 --> 02:16:38,978
- He had a fair hearing.
- A fair hearing, Taipe?
1753
02:16:39,147 --> 02:16:42,361
I heard them tell him
that his testimony was
1754
02:16:42,387 --> 02:16:45,338
inadmissible, except as
a dying declaration.
1755
02:16:45,487 --> 02:16:47,955
Well, Custer's dead...
1756
02:16:48,123 --> 02:16:50,717
...but you're going
to hear him speak.
1757
02:17:01,503 --> 02:17:03,562
You have something
to say, Libby?
1758
02:17:03,738 --> 02:17:07,606
I have here a letter
from my husband...
1759
02:17:07,776 --> 02:17:09,869
...addressed to the nation.
1760
02:17:10,045 --> 02:17:13,105
It contains nothing with
which you are not familiar.
1761
02:17:13,281 --> 02:17:17,308
Only a restatement of the evidence
he attempted to put before Congress.
1762
02:17:17,519 --> 02:17:20,886
That evidence was ruled
hearsay, mere hearsay.
1763
02:17:21,089 --> 02:17:25,890
My husband wrote this letter on
the morning of June the 25th...
1764
02:17:26,061 --> 02:17:28,928
...in anticipation of
his death on that day.
1765
02:17:29,097 --> 02:17:33,261
He believed it to be what the committee
called a dying declaration...
1766
02:17:33,835 --> 02:17:36,395
...and as such, admissible
in a court of law.
1767
02:17:36,571 --> 02:17:39,540
You hear that? If that letter
gets out, we'll be lynched!
1768
02:17:39,708 --> 02:17:44,236
- Well, say something, man.
- It doesn't seem to matter, Taipe.
1769
02:17:44,679 --> 02:17:50,174
My son chose to go to his
death with the 7th Cavalry.
1770
02:17:51,386 --> 02:17:53,081
And I think I know why.
1771
02:17:53,488 --> 02:17:57,652
There is a price for which it can
be bought. Colonel Custer's price.
1772
02:17:57,826 --> 02:17:59,851
Well, what is it? Name it.
1773
02:18:00,028 --> 02:18:01,757
The company must be dissolved.
1774
02:18:01,930 --> 02:18:03,591
The company is dissolved.
1775
02:18:03,765 --> 02:18:07,292
Mr. Taipe, you must resign
your office as commissioner.
1776
02:18:07,469 --> 02:18:11,200
- Resign?
- And before you leave this room.
1777
02:18:17,178 --> 02:18:19,735
And there's another
price, General Sheridan.
1778
02:18:19,761 --> 02:18:21,606
The price the
administration must pay.
1779
02:18:21,750 --> 02:18:24,981
The administration must make
good its promise to Crazy Horse.
1780
02:18:25,153 --> 02:18:28,884
The Indians must be protected in their
right to exist in their country.
1781
02:18:29,057 --> 02:18:31,484
I have the authority
to answer that from
1782
02:18:31,510 --> 02:18:34,042
the administration, from
the president himself.
1783
02:18:42,937 --> 02:18:44,768
Come, my dear.
1784
02:18:44,939 --> 02:18:48,534
Your soldier won his
last fight after all.150427
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