The Great Sioux Massacre (1965)

Directors

Sidney Salkow

Cast

Joseph Cotten, Darren McGavin, Philip Carey, Julie Sommars, Nancy Kovack, John Matthews, Michael Pate

The story

The film begins at a board of inquiry over the Battle of the Little Big Horn, specifically examining the conduct of Major Marcus Reno. Captain Bill Benton (perhaps inspired by Frederick Benteen) is called to the stand, and rather than merely answer questions from the board states that he will tell his version of the "true story" that the audience sees through flashback. Benton relates his first arrival in the Wild West in 1875, where his detachment is escorting the wife of the local Indian agent, Mr.

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