''Custer's Last Fight'' (also known as ''Custer's Last Raid'') is a 1912 American
silent short
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Western
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film. It is the first film about
George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.
Custer graduated from West Point in 1861 at the bottom of his class, b ...
and his final stand at the
Battle of the Little Bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Nor ...
.
Francis Ford, the older brother of director
John Ford
John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), known professionally as John Ford, was an American film director and naval officer. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers of his generation. He ...
, directed the two-reel
short
Short may refer to:
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* Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon
* Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community
* Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place
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and also starred in the title role. It was shot principally in "
Inceville
Thomas Harper Ince (November 16, 1880 – November 19, 1924) was an American silent film - era filmmaker and media proprietor.
Ince was known as the "Father of the Western" and was responsible for making over 800 films. He revolutionized the mot ...
" at Santa Ynez Canyon in
Pacific Palisades, California
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Pacific Palisades was formally founded in 1921 by a Chautauqua, Methodist organization, an ...
.
The film was re-released in 1925 and 1933.
Cast
*
Francis Ford as
George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.
Custer graduated from West Point in 1861 at the bottom of his class, b ...
*
Grace Cunard
Grace Cunard (born Harriet Mildred Jeffries; April 8, 1893 – January 19, 1967) was an American actress, screenwriter and film director. During the silent era, she starred in over 100 films, wrote or co-wrote at least 44 of those production ...
as
Mrs. Custer
*
William Eagle Shirt
William "Good Lance" Eagle Shirt was a Native American actor, performer, and screenwriter who was born and raised on the Great Plains of South Dakota. He appeared in a string of Hollywood films in the 1910s and is credited with co-writing two of ...
as
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull ( lkt, Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake ; December 15, 1890) was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock I ...
*
J. Barney Sherry
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as
James McLaughlin
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Art Acord
Arthemus Ward "Art" Acord (April 17, 1890 – January 4, 1931) was an American silent film actor and rodeo champion. After his film career ended in 1929, Acord worked in rodeo road shows and as a miner in Mexico.
Early life and career
Acord ...
as a Trooper
*
Ann Little
Ann Little (born Mary Hankins Brooks; February 7, 1891 – May 21, 1984), also known as Anna Little, was an American film actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the early 1910s through the early 1920s. Today, mos ...
*
Lillian Christy Lillian or Lilian can refer to:
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* Lillian (name) or Lilian, a given name
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* Lilian, Iran, a village in Markazi Province, Iran In the United States
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* Lillian Township, Custer County, Ne ...
*
Charles K. French
Charles K. French (born Charles Ekrauss French or Charles E. Krauss; January 17, 1860 – August 2, 1952) was an American film actor, screenwriter and director who appeared in more than 240 films between 1909 and 1945.
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French was ...
*
Snowball
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as a horse
References
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re-edited version on DVD
1912 films
1912 Western (genre) films
1912 short films
American Indian Wars films
American biographical films
American black-and-white films
American silent short films
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Biographical films about people of the American Old West
Cultural depictions of George Armstrong Custer
Cultural depictions of Sitting Bull
Films about Native Americans
Films directed by Francis Ford
Films set in 1876
Films shot in Los Angeles
Silent American Western (genre) films
1910s American films
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