Silent Movies on Gen. George Armstrong Custer
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- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsWilliam H. WestMarin SaisPaul HurstFleetfoot and Hawkeye fight a terrible duel on horseback for the hand of Willowbud, daughter of Chief Buffalo Face. Fleetfoot is slain. Willowbud, who hates the victor, sees. Hawkeye follows. The girl is rescued by Lieutenant Blake and his men. Foiled, Hawkeye returns to camp and declares that the soldiers have made Willowbud a prisoner. The Indians declare war upon the white men. They make a furious attack upon the fort, only to be repulsed with heavy loss. Shortly afterward, the Indians learn of the presence of an immigrant train in the Big Horn Valley. Chief Buffalo Face and his men make a sudden attack and massacre the immigrants after a desperate battle. Only two whites escape death, Lee, who dashes away to the post for help, and Vera, his sweetheart, who is captured by Hawkeye. Lee brings news of the slaughter to the fort. Soldiers are dispatched to the scene. Willowbud steals out of the post and hastens to warn her people. The sight of the massacred women and children causes the troopers to register a vow for vengeance. Blake, who is in command, divides his force so as to take the enemy on two sides. The soldiers descend upon the Indians like a whirlwind. Fighting like demons, the troopers wipe the Indians out. His desire to avenge the death of his people gives Lee superhuman strength. Single-handed he slays Buffalo Face and Hawkeye. Blake discovers Vera a prisoner in Hawkeye's tepee. He frees the girl, who sees her sweetheart standing over the bodies of his foes. She calls him. Lee turns. The lovers rush into each other's arms.
- DirectorMarshall NeilanStarsJames KirkwoodWesley BarryMarjorie DawThe adventures of Bob Hampton out West bring him into association with General George Custer, who has plans for a raiding party on the Sioux camp near the Little Bighorn River.
- DirectorLionel BelmoreStarsDarwin KarrCharles KentBobby ConnellyIn 1876, Lt. Tony Britton of the 7th Cavalry is in love with pretty young Barbara Manning, but the wife of his superior, Capt. Granson, is in love with him and begs him to run away with her. Britton refuses, but is soon sent to arrest Sioux chief Rain-in-the-Face, who has murdered two soldiers from the 7th. He captures his quarry and carts him off to jail, infuriating the local Indians. When Capt. Granson learns of his wife's infatuation with Britton, he makes trouble for Britton, who is soon forced to resign his commission. He signs up as an army scout, and learns that the Indians are planning to attack and massacre the 7th under the command of Col. George Armstrong Custer. Can he get to Custer in time to warn him of the impending attack, and will he--a disgraced army officer--be believed?
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsWilliam CliffordSherman BainbridgeVal Paul"General Custer is stationed at Fort Riley in the early '70's to suppress the Sioux. He sends Captain Clifford with an important message to Fort Wallace. Clifford learns of the contemplated attack on the stage coach which carries the two nieces of General Custer and frustrates the plan which incurs the enmity of "Wolf Fang" who exercises influence with the Sioux tribe. The Indians start an uprising and make such a vigorous attack that General Custer is hard pressed and decides upon a clever ruse to rout the Sioux. A mule wagon with a load of gunpowder and lighted fuse is started toward the Indians. The latter run to take possession of the wagon when it explodes. The Indians are routed and the troops are saved from extermination. During the acquaintance of Captain Clifford and General Custer's niece at the post a mutual attachment has been formed and the closing scenes show the happy marriage of this couple."
- DirectorHarry L. FraserStarsJohn BeckRoy StewartEdmund CobbFrontier scout, buffalo hunter, and all-around good guy Lem Hawks romances Betty Rossman amid the backdrop of a fictional account of events that lead to the Battle of Little Bighorn.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsWilliam CliffordMarie WalcampSherman BainbridgeThe action of "Custer's Last Scout" takes place in 1876 when our Indian wards took it into their hands to exterminate the white soldiers. General Geo. A. Custer is in command at Fort Lincoln. With him as chief scout is Alfred L. Chapman. Others in his command are Major Reno, Capt. Bates, Lieut. Woodruff and Lieut. Kane. Marjorie Woodruff, sister to Lieut. Woodruff, is the belle of the post. Every officer is in love with her, but Captain Bates and Chapman are recognized rivals. Marjorie's brother has a decided objection to Chapman's suit, and does not hesitate to acquaint Marjorie with the fact. She, however, possesses a will of her own. Chapman proposes to Marjorie, who tells him that she will give him an answer on the morrow. Chapman leaves her, meets the young lieutenant, and the two are kept from coming to blows only by the intervention of brother officers. Bates then proposes to Marjorie, and is accepted. Whereupon Marjorie writes a note to Chapman, telling him of the fact, and sends the article to Chapman by a passing trooper. Lieut. Woodruff sees the action, holds up the trooper and forces the latter to give up the note. That afternoon Chapman is sent to observe the movements of Chief Rain-in-the-Face, while Lieut. Woodruff and Kane, accompanied by two troopers one of whom figured in the note incident, set out to hunt antelope. The little party is ambushed, and the two officers and one trooper are killed. The survivor is the trooper from whom Woodruff took Marjorie's note. The trooper falls in with another band of Indians who fire upon him. He rolls down a steep embankment and under a growth of bush. Later, he crawls from his concealment and heads for the fort. Custer sends Captain Bates to Fort Rice. En route, Bates and his small escort discover the bodies of the murdered officers. Bates also picks up the note written by Marjorie and dropped by the Indians when they rifled the bodies of their victims. Bates returns to the fort where he accuses Scout Chapman of haying murdered Woodruff, producing the note to prove the accusation. Custer is forced to order the scout arrested. As Chapman is led away, another scout enters with the half-dead trooper who, seeing the predicament of Chapman confesses to them that his superior officer had forced him to give up the note. Chapman is freed and the incident closes. Reynolds the second scout, informs Custer that Rain-in-the-Face is in possession of Lieut. Woodruff's gold watch. Custer decides to arrest the Chief, and sends Bates, Chapman and Tom Custer to Standing Rock Agency. Here the soldiers, after a struggle, succeed in arresting the Chief, and return with him to Fort Lincoln. The Chief's followers, enraged at his arrest, immediately bring warfare against the white settlers. Washington hears of this, and Custer receives orders to pacify the redmen. To this end he takes with him the seventh cavalry and starts after the Indians. Chapman is sent ahead but is unfortunate enough to tall into the hands of the Indians, who submit him to the usual tests for cowardice. After an interval. Chapman escapes his captors and heads back to rejoin his command. Underestimating the force of the Indians, Custer splits his command, sending Captain Bates and a troop up the Little Big Horn. Custer and his troops go down the river, leaving Reno and his men at a fixed post. The plans of attack call for a simultaneous movement from three sides. Reno, however, is drawn into an ambush and loses nearly half of his command. Bates is cut off, and Custer, unaware of these events, advances upon the Indians. His attack proves a failure, for the Indians are massed thousands strong, and he is compelled to fight a hand to hand conflict. Scout Chapman, hearing the firing, hastens forward, but he, too, is cut off. Hoping to circle the Indians, Chapman climbs to the top of a small hill. Here he views the terrible spectacle of Custer's massacre, unable either to advance or retreat. Later he is able to leave his position and picking up the disabled Reno command, tells them of the fate of Custer. Finding Captain Bates sorely wounded, Scout Chapman picks him up and brings him back to the fort. Marjorie weeps as she thanks the faithful scout for bringing back her accepted suitor while Chapman grins and rides away to live down his own disappointment.
- DirectorWilliam WatsonStarsZip MonbergFlorence LeeBilly Franey
- DirectorEdward SedgwickStarsHoot GibsonAnne CornwallDustin FarnumBob Langdon, a young Pony Express rider, is given an appointment to West Point, but is forced to leave the academy as the result of political intrigue stirred up by enemies of his friend, General George A. Custer. Bob returns to the west and is made a scout for Custer's 7th Cavalry. At the Battle of Little Big Horn, Custer sends Bob with a message for aid, and Bob becomes the only survivor of the battle.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsWilfred LucasBlanche SweetCharles WestThe story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
- DirectorMilton J. Fahrney
- DirectorFrancis BoggsStarsHobart BosworthBetty HarteFrank WalshThe order of disarmament, issued in the Winter of 1S74, and the arrest of "Rain in the Face" by young Tom Custer, is shown in our first three scenes. Then, "two years later," we witness the arrival of General Custer at Post Fort Lincoln. An order superseding him in command of the expedition is received. Then follows a scene where the officers beg him not to trust "Reno" with an important command, as it was known in the army that bad blood existed between these two officers. A bit of unwritten history is here introduced. The Commander of the Post, Col. Godfrey, had a pretty daughter, Dollie, who was in love with Lieut. Glenn, one of Custer's subalterns, and she, not relishing being separated from her sweetheart, inadvertently learned that there was to be an officer sent back to bring forward a supply train as soon as the General located the Indians. She makes a written request asking the General to send back Lieut. Glenn. The love interest bearing upon the lives of these two young people is, we hope, not intrusively blended into and made a part of the, present historical subject. We then see General Custer and his officers watching the hostiles through their field glasses. Custer decides to attack. Reno is given command of the supporting column, in spite of the protests of the assembled officers. The General thinks of little Dollie Godfrey's letter, reads it, grants the request it contains by ordering young Lieut. Glenn back to the fort. Next we see the wily "Rain in the Face" and his band of naked, painted devils leading Custer's cavalry into a trap; riding up just out of gunshot, they tantalize Custer into making a charge. The "Gallant Command" answer the order with a yell and are off after the fleeing band of savages. A sudden dip in the prairie and the Indians disappear, then up a rise of ground perhaps thirty feet in height; then come the soldiers, every man urging his horse to his utmost in order to gain on the yelling red fiends in front. Over the bluff they go, and the sight that meets their gaze freezes the blood, for stretched away as far as the eye can reach, upright and naked on their ponies they sit, three thousand Sioux warriors, waiting for the handful of white soldiers to be brought to the slaughter. Too late, Custer sees his error; nothing daunted, he gives the order, column half left, about face, retreat, steady, men, ride for your lives to higher ground; then two miles away Reno's officers hear the volley that greets Custer from that bronze line, and beg him, Reno, to go to Custer's assistance. Then we see "The Last Stand"; horses sent to the rear to be later stampeded, thus leaving no escape for the brave little band, now reduced to forty-one men; the red circle of death closes in about them and "Rain in the Face" is avenged. Two days later the news reaches Fort Lincoln. On the same day a young officer, dust covered, his uniform in shreds, rides into the Fort and delivers Custer's last message, sent a few hours before the massacre. Glenn had fallen into the hands of a roving band of Sioux, but makes his escape and reaches the Fort, to learn for the first time the fate of his comrades on the Little Big Horn.
- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsRobert FrazerClara BowRobert EdesonCardelanche, the son of an Indian chief, returns from the East to find himself rejected by his own people. He is made captain of the U.S. army when he saves a detachment of cavalry from a group of renegate Indians, and further removes himself from his race when he develops a relationship with Miriam (Bow), the daughter of the Fort Remmington commandant. Lieutenant Parkman (Walker) gets into a fight with Cardelanche when Parkman is demoted, while General Custer's troups are slaughtered by Cardelanche's people. Cardelanche decides that his true allegiance is to his own race, and gives up Miriam to return to them.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsTim McCoyMarjorie DawWilliam FairbanksWhen the Indians threaten to go on the war path if the trappers are not removed from the reservation within 30 days, Lieutenant Lang is given the assignment to get them off. On the 30th day he has gotten them all except the Benton group. There he finds them led by a woman and she says they will not leave.