''General Custer at the Little Big Horn'' is a 1926 American silent

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film directed by Harry L. Fraser and starring

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. It depicts 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 ...

Cast

as Lem Hawks *

Helen Lynch Helen Lynch (April 6, 1900 – March 2, 1965) was an American silent film actress, mainly known for her roles playing gun molls and other morally dubious characters. Biography Lynch was born in 1900 in Billings, Montana, where she was also ra ...

as Betty Rossman * John Beck as General

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 ...

* Edmund Cobb as Capt. Page *

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* Norman Lindley * Arthur Morrison * Bert Lindley * Running Deer as Chief Sitting Bull * Felix Whitefeather * Black Hawk * Andre Farneur

Preservation status

A print of the film is preserved in the collection of the

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.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'', page 66 c.1978 by The American Film Institute

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''General Custer at the Little Big Horn'' at SilentEra
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1926 films Films directed by Harry L. Fraser 1926 Western (genre) films American black-and-white films American historical drama films 1920s historical drama films 1926 drama films Cultural depictions of George Armstrong Custer Cultural depictions of Sitting Bull Biographical films about military leaders Silent American Western (genre) films 1920s American films Silent American drama films {{silent-film-stub

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Preservation status

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