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00:00 [music]
00:29 Thanks. I'll buy you a drink the next time you're at Fort Hayes.
00:34 Hello, Bates.
00:40 Glad to see you back, Colonel.
00:41 Waiting long?
00:42 Well, it was getting kind of lonesome waiting out here.
00:44 A fellow my size gets to be a pretty easy target.
00:47 Depends on who's doing the shooting.
00:52 Oh, right over there, Colonel.
00:57 Sorry to drink you all the way out here, Bates.
00:59 There won't be a stagecoach to Fort Hayes for another week.
01:02 Well, the telegram said you didn't want an escort, Colonel.
01:05 With all the dust being kicked up by fire cloud and his people around here lately.
01:09 All the more reason for no escort.
01:11 Just two men riding hard.
01:13 Won't make them quite as nervous.
01:16 Yes, sir.
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01:42 Did you do us any good in Washington, Colonel?
01:44 I doubt it.
01:46 Sat two hours with General Sheridan.
01:48 Talked myself blue in the face.
01:51 While his orderly kept me behind a wall of cucumber sandwiches.
01:56 And the 7th will go right on doing garbage detail instead of soldiering.
02:00 I wouldn't say you've been totally deprived of using your weapons.
02:04 Or a chance to lose your scalp.
02:06 Yes, sir.
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02:30 [horse neighing]
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02:48 At 24, he had been the youngest general in the Civil War.
02:52 Within five years, he had been reduced in rank and sent west to be forgotten.
02:56 But he was not the kind of man to let the world forget.
02:59 His name, George Armstrong Custer.
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05:01 Hold it right there.
05:03 Good morning.
05:04 I'm Colonel Custer on my way back to Fort Hayes.
05:07 I'd appreciate a ride.
05:09 If you don't have any room, I don't mind sharing space for the baggage.
05:12 You're all alone, huh?
05:14 As you see me.
05:16 Uh-huh.
05:17 Colonel in the cavalry.
05:18 No horse, no baggage, no orderly?
05:20 Very nearly no, Colonel.
05:22 We were attacked by Indians.
05:25 I lost a man back there.
05:29 We're leaving in a few minutes.
05:31 Go have some grub.
05:33 Thank you.
05:49 You know who that is down here?
05:51 Who?
05:52 Custer.
05:53 Who?
05:54 George Armstrong Custer, the boy general, ex-general.
05:59 Once known as the Prince of Cavaliers.
06:01 Now doing penance at Fort Hayes, commanding the dregs of the dregs of the U.S. cavalry.
06:06 No need to be afraid of him.
06:22 You want to ride with us, Colonel, I ought to warn you.
06:25 This country's swarming.
06:26 Like a nest of hornets been poked with a sharp stick.
06:29 I've had occasion to notice it.
06:31 Like Lolly Zood, without war paint.
06:34 Combing this country like a giant posse.
06:36 I'm sure they told us at the last station anyways.
06:38 All seems to me like they're looking for somebody.
06:41 A reasonable assumption.
06:44 Reckon it might be you, Colonel Custer?
06:47 I've been in Washington for the past three weeks.
06:50 Indians got better memories than that.
06:54 Mister, even if I were that important, they couldn't possibly know I'm back.
07:00 All right.
07:01 Get a move.
07:05 Hey, Brown.
07:07 I ain't no hurry for you, eh?
07:09 You use that elbow once more and I'll break it.
07:11 Come on.
07:31 Oh, Colonel Custer.
07:33 Ned Quimbo is my name.
07:35 Honored to know you, sir.
07:37 I bet I've read every word ever written about you.
07:40 I'm glad I can't say the same.
07:42 You're too modest, sir.
07:43 I'm a journalist.
07:44 And I hope to add a few thousand words to the legend before this trip is over.
07:58 You ask before you borrow anything from me, mister.
08:01 Think fast and act faster, Colonel Custer.
08:03 I want to thank you.
08:08 It's all right.
08:10 I think you and your friend better go first this time.
08:25 (Grunts)
08:49 Mighty few men become legends in their own lifetime.
09:07 And what made them legends wasn't their own spectacular deeds.
09:10 No, sir, it was the pen of men like yours truly that engraved their names in the affections of their countrymen.
09:16 Go ahead.
09:17 Write up, Custer.
09:19 And never mind about the facts.
09:21 You'll swallow every word and buy a hundred copies to dispatch to every congressman and senator who's mind doing him some good.
09:30 Why else would a man wear a uniform in peacetime if he weren't lusting after glory?
09:37 Or you could write me up instead.
09:41 You could call it Uvalde, the outlaw of the plains.
09:49 You could sell copies at my hanging.
09:52 You'll be slaying long before they set the first ticket type.
09:55 Perhaps you need someone like me to tell the world the truth about you or what you would like them to consider to be the truth.
10:02 You do me too much honor, Mr. Quimbo.
10:04 If you really wish to write about a man who is a living legend, may I suggest you seek the acquaintance of Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux.
10:13 Do you hold all your enemies in such high regard, Colonel?
10:19 As a good Christian, I always turn the other cheek, but not my back.
10:25 Isn't it a pity that so little of your Christian generosity was in evidence when you were fighting us?
10:34 I lost your husband in the war.
10:39 You have my sympathy.
10:41 But perhaps for such losses we should blame war itself, not the color of a uniform.
10:48 We're ready to go. Get aboard.
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11:10 Easy targets here.
11:35 We've got to stop. I'll find a shallower place to cross.
11:38 That water looks shallow enough to forward.
11:40 Better take a look at it. Can't risk getting bogged down.
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13:04 Something's wrong. I wonder where old Jake is.
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13:39 Where's old Jake?
13:42 Engine's got him. Night before last.
13:46 Yeah? How'd you get here?
13:48 I'm his replacement.
13:50 (Music)
13:52 Just keep your hands high.
13:54 I can see 'em.
13:56 (Music)
13:58 (Music)
14:03 Throw down your gun.
14:05 (Music)
14:10 Go banks, get these things off me.
14:12 (Music)
14:19 Let's have the key.
14:21 How far do you think you'll get?
14:23 (Music)
14:37 On the ground?
14:40 You too, mister.
14:42 (Music)
14:51 Over there.
14:53 (Music)
15:08 Firecloud has war parties all over these hills.
15:13 You'll never get out of here alive.
15:15 Not on your own.
15:17 We ain't about to take any witnesses with us.
15:20 We haven't done you any harm.
15:27 You ain't done me much good either.
15:33 What do you say we take her with us, huh?
15:36 I'll go with you too.
15:40 We'd be better off if they shot you right here.
15:42 They'd have to. Sooner or later.
15:45 How would you get us out of here alive?
15:48 Soldier, man.
15:50 Today's the 26th.
15:52 Company C of the 7th Cavalry.
15:54 It's scheduled for maneuvers.
15:56 A few miles from here.
15:59 Where?
16:00 Where?
16:02 (Birds chirping)
16:19 I was saying...
16:22 You don't get out of here alive...
16:24 Unless we do.
16:27 All of us.
16:50 I've written scads of novels about these types.
16:53 They're like primitive children.
16:55 Dangerous only if provoked.
16:58 General?
17:11 I heard you had a rumpus with some bucks back at the creek.
17:15 That don't prove they're out there now in full force.
17:19 We've been here all day...
17:21 And I ain't seen no sign of 'em.
17:24 When was the last time you had a look around?
17:36 Keep down!
17:39 Good bluffing, Mr. Colonel.
17:41 But it won't wear.
17:43 All I can see out there is...
17:45 (Gunshot)
17:46 (Screams)
17:51 Now, do we get our guns back?
17:53 I'll try nothing.
17:54 I promise nothing, but I'll try and help us stay alive.
17:59 Get inside.
18:01 (Gunshots)
18:03 (Screams)
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18:21 (Gunshots)
18:22 [screaming]
18:32 [screams]
18:42 [music]
18:55 They killed Jake.
18:57 Milbank's did it.
19:00 The Indians won't attack again until the sun is low enough to blind us.
19:10 No need for more than one of us to stay out here in this heat.
19:13 I'll bury Jake, and I got the first watch.
19:17 That water's gonna have to last us for a while.
19:37 Carol, you ain't in charge of this fort now.
19:40 Your brass don't mean nothing around here now.
19:44 I think somebody should be in command.
20:03 Not you.
20:05 I suspect I'm qualified.
20:07 If you want to challenge that,
20:10 you'd better do it right here and now.
20:14 Guns or fist, any way you want it.
20:17 Let's save our ammunition for the Indians.
20:26 Hmm, Admiral?
20:29 [sighs]
20:31 There's your gun belt, Brewster.
20:37 [grunts]
20:42 [grunts]
20:45 [grunts]
20:47 [grunts]
20:51 [grunts]
20:58 [grunts]
21:01 [grunts]
21:04 [grunts]
21:06 No.
21:29 I'll eat him alive.
21:32 Just a while longer.
21:34 [sighs]
21:37 [water running]
21:40 [water running]
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22:10 [water running]
22:13 [water running]
22:16 Thank you.
22:21 Are you all right?
22:23 I have seen you before, Colonel Custer.
22:33 But you wouldn't remember...
22:38 the crying women you passed during the war.
22:44 They...
22:47 they meant nothing to you, did they?
22:49 Not the first to say or...
22:52 or to think that, Mrs. Moffat.
22:55 The spoils of war aren't usually what is imagined.
23:00 You're alive.
23:04 A soldier learns to live with the sudden possibility of death.
23:08 And dying...
23:12 that's not the hardest part.
23:17 It's...
23:19 it's the problems you leave for those who survive you.
23:24 You...
23:28 you mean that, don't you?
23:32 Would you have been told never to believe a Yankee man?
23:39 A warrior general...
23:46 a young cavalier.
23:48 Hear me, General?
23:52 Take your hand off me, Uvalde.
23:56 If the lady don't mind too much...
24:01 supposing she try her luck at wrestling up some grub for us...
24:05 from the looks of things, we just might be here for some time.
24:09 Some coffee might help.
24:15 I'll get it.
24:17 Got to hand it to you, General.
24:28 Fancy uniform...
24:30 her reputation to match.
24:33 Really works.
24:35 One minute she hates your guts and next time she...
24:39 (laughing)
24:41 (laughing)
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25:38 Mr. Uvalde...
25:47 as an experienced man of the West...
25:50 do you think that it's really only Custer the Indians are after?
25:55 Ain't no doubt in the world about it.
25:58 In my mind...
26:00 My opinion exactly.
26:05 (dramatic music)
26:11 (train horn blaring)
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26:22 (gunshot)
26:26 (dramatic music)
26:29 (gunshot)
26:41 (gunshot)
26:47 (gunshot)
26:49 Thanks.
26:57 Pretty close.
26:59 Too close.
27:01 You could still use a guard out here.
27:03 Yeah, I'll keep you company.
27:06 (dramatic music)
27:10 (door opening)
27:12 Where are you going?
27:25 To find out if it's me Firecloud is after.
27:28 Are you out of your head?
27:36 How do you expect to learn what that savage has in his mind?
27:40 I'm going to ask him.
27:42 Sir, if I get out of this alive...
27:45 I know.
27:46 You'll make mention of me in your writings in the most generous of terms.
27:50 Generous? I shall make you immortal.
27:53 And why do you smile?
27:55 Can you truly be unaware that the hand that holds the pen is the hand that rules the world?
28:00 I've been made only too painfully aware of that, Mr. Quimbo.
28:04 On more than one occasion.
28:06 Diedrichs, lock up after me.
28:09 Colonel Custer.
28:13 Please take care.
28:18 Yes, ma'am.
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29:17 It is yellow hair.
29:20 Do not kill till I give order.
29:24 I've come to ask what Firecloud wants.
29:30 It isn't like the great warrior Firecloud to send hundreds of braves into a land where he cannot hope to prevail against our cavalry.
29:38 Not without the most serious of reasons.
29:40 Firecloud have that.
29:43 Reason enough to leave the safety of the hills?
29:46 Reason enough!
29:48 The people left alive in that station.
29:51 What makes them so important that you would risk the lives of your braves?
29:57 Firecloud had a son.
30:01 One of them.
30:04 He killed son of Firecloud.
30:07 Which one?
30:09 The man you call Uvalde.
30:16 Firecloud, believe me, that man is under the sentence of death.
30:21 He escaped from prison and was being returned by a U.S. Marshal to await execution.
30:26 To hang without pain?
30:29 To be dead in the blink of an eye?
30:32 Without time to scream for mercy?
30:36 Yes.
30:38 That is the law.
30:41 That and no other.
30:44 We will take him from you to give him death of my choosing.
30:50 Give him to us.
30:52 You will all go free.
30:54 Firecloud, I'm an officer.
30:56 Sworn to uphold the law.
30:58 I will not...
31:01 I cannot give you what you want.
31:05 We will come and take him.
31:08 At any cost.
31:10 You will die.
31:12 All of you will die.
31:14 I will not speak of this again.
31:18 [Gunshots]
31:46 If you know it's Uvalde they wanted nothing else,
31:50 then why don't you just turn him over and spare the rest of us?
31:54 You don't really believe that Firecloud would let us go, do you?
31:58 No, he might not order us killed, but he wouldn't stop it either.
32:03 So what if you're wrong?
32:05 What if we lost the... the thorn in our side?
32:08 That'll be enough out of you.
32:10 [Grunts]
32:12 You're a hard man to convince, Uvalde.
32:38 We'll need what strength we have left to keep Firecloud from overrunning us.
32:42 What do you think he'll attack?
32:55 It won't cost him too many men.
32:58 That's why they care about casualties.
33:03 I always thought to a redskin life was cheaper in dirt.
33:06 You shouldn't believe everything you write, Mr. Quimbo.
33:09 The sewer's a deadly fighter, but he loves life...
33:12 as much as you or I...
33:15 when it isn't maintained at the expense of honor.
33:18 Honor? Among savages?
33:22 Perhaps we could do with a little more of that honor ourselves.
33:26 May I have some water?
33:33 [Gulping]
33:35 I'd... I'd like to thank you, Colonel Custer.
33:49 Uvalde would have...
33:51 You asked for it, Mrs. Muffet.
33:54 I know. I know I did. I... I goaded him into it, but...
33:58 Well, a man like that...
34:00 He's facing death the same as the rest of us.
34:03 And if Firecloud has his way, it won't be quick and it won't be pleasant.
34:07 Remember, his life means as much to him as ours does to us.
34:13 I know that.
34:16 It just seems so unfair...
34:19 for our lives to be in jeopardy to save a man...
34:23 well, a man already condemned to death.
34:26 Would you turn him over to Firecloud...
34:29 knowing what would happen?
34:32 No.
34:34 It's only...
34:36 A chance that we may die here?
34:39 I felt for a long time I had nothing to live for...
34:46 after my husband was killed.
34:48 Everything had just come to an end.
34:52 But things do go on...
34:55 and we find ourselves living for the moment...
35:00 picking up the pieces of our lives again...
35:04 remembering all the things we once planned to do...
35:08 to accomplish.
35:11 You have a dream, too, Colonel Custer?
35:14 A bigger dream, Mrs. Muffet...
35:16 than I have any right to expect to control.
35:19 (Sighs)
35:21 Colonel?
35:47 Shall we try and get some rest?
35:49 Fine, thank you.
35:51 (Crying)
35:53 Any sign of him?
35:55 No, not yet.
35:58 It's most unusual for Indians to attack at night.
36:01 The legend has it that their souls can't find their way...
36:04 into the next world in the darkness.
36:06 Like the children afraid of the dark.
36:10 Simple, childlike...
36:14 and more terrible than any other people on this earth.
36:19 But they are people...
36:21 with the same human weakness and frailties the rest of us.
36:25 I wouldn't call you weak...
36:28 or afraid of anything, for that matter.
36:32 Different men fear different things.
36:35 But you're not afraid of death.
36:38 I've lived too long with it to be afraid of it.
36:41 But that's enough of this kind of talk.
36:44 We'll get out of this somehow.
36:47 Now, do you want to try and get some rest?
36:52 I'm fine here.
36:54 This will make my most exciting novel...
37:04 and every word of it true.
37:06 Save me a copy, Quimbo.
37:08 I'd like to know how it turns out.
37:10 Why, of course, Colonel Custer.
37:13 And while you're at it, don't forget to include my pal.
37:18 Farclay.
37:20 I would give my soul to be able to do just that.
37:24 To understand a great chief...
37:26 committed to an all-out war against the mightiest nation on earth...
37:30 fighting for all the barbaric things he believes in.
37:34 You make it all sound very romantic, Quimbo.
37:38 But in truth, there's no romance in these Indian wars.
37:42 And no absolute right on either side.
37:46 (Dramatic music playing)
37:49 Quimbo, kill that line.
38:15 Diedrichs, get inside.
38:18 Now, what are you doing?
38:38 Trying to get a sound appear if I'm lucky.
38:41 Custer's lucky. I hope it's still working.
38:44 You know Firecloud will have a guard out there someplace.
38:47 I'm sure of it.
38:49 I'll be back in 20 minutes.
38:54 You're on your own, Diedrichs.
38:56 And I wish you luck.
38:59 (Dramatic music playing)
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39:34 (Dramatic music playing)
39:37 This is not much of a plan.
40:00 This is the best chance we've got.
40:02 You'll go out straight away from here.
40:04 About a mile, you'll cross the stagecoach road.
40:07 If you keep low, move carefully.
40:09 We should be able to make it before daylight.
40:11 What about you?
40:13 I've got to try and get us out of this trap.
40:16 By distracting Firecloud long enough to give us a head start.
40:20 When you see that stagecoach coming, get ready.
40:23 Start moving.
40:25 (Hooves clopping)
40:28 We got nothing to lose.
40:42 You'll have a better chance if you stay together.
40:46 (Hooves clopping)
40:49 Quimbo.
40:58 Quimbo!
41:00 No, no, no, I don't want to go.
41:02 Get out that window.
41:04 Firecloud isn't after me. He has no reason to kill me.
41:07 Believe me, Quimbo, he doesn't need one.
41:09 The kind you'd understand.
41:11 I don't believe that.
41:13 Get out that window, now!
41:15 Hurry, it's getting light.
41:17 (Hooves clopping)
41:22 (Hooves clopping)
41:38 (Hooves clopping)
41:41 Yah!
42:05 (Hooves clopping)
42:08 Yah!
42:17 (Hooves clopping)
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42:37 (Hooves clopping)
42:53 (Hooves clopping)
42:56 Yah!
43:21 (Speaking in native language)
43:24 Yah!
43:26 (Hooves clopping)
43:55 (Horse snorts)
43:57 (Grunts)
43:59 (Horse whinnies)
44:01 Yah!
44:10 (Hooves clopping)
44:13 Hurry it up.
44:23 (Hooves clopping)
44:26 Where's Quimbo?
44:36 He didn't come with us.
44:38 Bet his life Firecloud wouldn't kill him.
44:41 I hope he's won.
44:43 Yah!
44:45 (Hooves clopping)
44:47 (Hooves clopping)
44:50 (Horse whinnies)
44:52 (Horse whinnies)
44:54 No, no, no, Firecloud.
45:01 I want to speak to Firecloud.
45:03 Firecloud.
45:05 Do you realize that you are a living legend?
45:09 I will engrave your name upon the hearts of...
45:12 No, no, no, you don't understand.
45:15 (Thunder rumbles)
45:17 (Hooves clopping)
45:20 (Hooves clopping)
45:23 Got a broken line.
45:42 Can't go on until it's fixed.
45:44 Will it take long?
45:46 There's a leather awl and some cord in the gearbox.
45:49 I'll get it.
45:51 Drop your gun belt, Custer.
46:04 Move!
46:06 Are you insane, Uvalde?
46:08 Drop your gun belt.
46:10 Custer.
46:13 (Hooves clopping)
46:15 Now cut the horses loose, Brewster.
46:27 We're riding out.
46:29 What about the woman?
46:31 Well, that's up to her.
46:33 She can stay here.
46:35 Or she can ride with us.
46:37 (Chuckles)
46:40 (Thunder rumbles)
46:42 Your time just ran out, Uvalde.
46:47 Firecloud.
46:49 You're just full of cute little tricks, aren't you, soldier boy?
46:53 (Hooves clopping)
46:55 (Women screaming)
46:57 (Gunshot)
46:59 (Women screaming)
47:01 (Gunshot)
47:03 (Women screaming)
47:05 (Gunshot)
47:07 (Women screaming)
47:09 (Gunshot)
47:11 (Women screaming)
47:13 (Gunshot)
47:15 Don't shoot.
47:17 Not yet.
47:19 You won't let him take us alive.
47:22 (Women screaming)
47:36 (Women screaming)
47:38 (Women screaming)
47:46 (Gunshot)
47:48 (Hooves clopping)
47:50 Uvalde.
48:08 It's over, Firecloud.
48:10 (Shouting)
48:14 (Hooves clopping)
48:16 (Hooves clopping)
48:18 All right, ma'am. Ready to pull out?
48:34 Just a minute, please.
48:39 (Hooves clopping)
48:41 There'll be no danger the rest of the way.
48:52 It's time for goodbyes, Mrs. Moffat.
48:55 I'm staying here to meet my troop.
48:57 I'm very happy to have had the opportunity to have known you, Colonel Custer.
49:06 My privilege to know you, ma'am.
49:09 However, there is something that needs to be said.
49:12 I have reason to like you, respect you,
49:17 but you still stand for everything I hate--
49:20 war and senseless, brutal killing,
49:24 everything that you men call glory.
49:28 I can't deny that, Mrs. Moffat,
49:32 but I heard a great man once say,
49:35 "As much as I respect your opinion,
49:38 I respect my duty more."
49:41 One of your Yankee heroes, Colonel Custer?
49:44 No, madam.
49:46 That was General Robert E. Lee.
49:50 (Birds chirping)
49:52 (Dog barking)
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50:40 (Hooves clopping)
50:42 (Hooves clopping)
50:44 (Hooves clopping)
50:47 (upbeat music)
50:50 [BLANK_AUDIO]