This is a completely ridiculous film with few redeeming qualities, other than fairly competent acting. It begins with Custer as a good guy, defending Indians, opposing corruption, and seeking justice. Then Washington politicians wreck his career and a sinister senator whispers in his ear that, if he will turn evil, he can become president. So Custer turns evil for the rest of the movie. Historically, just about everything else is also nonsense. Reno was not a Confederate general and did not have a daughter in love with Benteen. Benteen never faced a potential death sentence for striking a superior officer (Custer). The Seventh Cavalry did not massacre an "unarmed" Sioux village on its way to the Little Big Horn. Custer's Last Stand was not fought on flat open ground with the Indians riding around him in a circle, and the Sioux warriors were not dressed like Apaches. This movie has so many historical inaccuracies that it would take a dozen pages to list them all, and there doesn't appear to be any reason for them other than laziness by the writers and producers. I love old westerns, especially the TV westerns of the 1950s and early 1960s, but this B-grade exercise is nothing but a disappointment.
Review of The Great Sioux Massacre
