Custer's Last Fight
{{short description|1912 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Custer's Last Fight
| image = Custer's Last Fight - movie poster.jpg
| caption = 1925 re-release poster
| director = Francis Ford
| producer = Thomas H. Ince
| writer = Richard V. Spencer
| starring = Francis Ford
Grace Cunard
| cinematography = Ray Smallwood
| distributor = Mutual Film
| released = {{Film date|1912|10|04|United States}}
| runtime = 2 reels (approximately 30 minutes)
| country = United States
| language = Silent
English intertitles
}}
Custer's Last Fight (also known as Custer's Last Raid) is a 1912 American silent short Western film. It is the first film about George Armstrong Custer and his final stand at the Battle of the Little Bighorn."Last Stand at Little Big Horn". American Experience. PBS. Francis Ford, the older brother of director John Ford, directed the two-reel short and also starred in the title role. It was shot principally in "Inceville" at Santa Ynez Canyon in Pacific Palisades, California.
The film was re-released in 1925 and 1933.
Cast
- Francis Ford as George Armstrong Custer
- Grace Cunard as Mrs. Custer{{Cite web|url=https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-grace-cunard/|title=Grace Cunard – Women Film Pioneers Project|website=wfpp.columbia.edu|access-date=March 5, 2020}}
- William Eagle Shirt as Sitting Bull
- J. Barney Sherry as James McLaughlin
- Art Acord as a Trooper
- Ann Little
- Lillian Christy
- Charles K. French
- Snowball as a horse
References
External links
- {{AFI film|154}}
- {{IMDb title|0002126}}
- [http://www.silentera.com/video/custersLastFightHV.html re-edited version on DVD]
Category:1912 Western (genre) films
Category:1910s English-language films
Category:American biographical films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American Indian Wars films
Category:Battle of the Little Bighorn
Category:Biographical films about people of the American Old West
Category:Cultural depictions of George Armstrong Custer
Category:Cultural depictions of Sitting Bull
Category:Films about Native Americans
Category:Films directed by Francis Ford
Category:Films shot in Los Angeles
Category:Silent American Western (genre) short films
Category:Surviving American silent films
Category:English-language Western (genre) short films
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