The Glory Guys

About The Glory Guys

Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a generic war story covering the enlistment, training, and operational deployment of a group of recruits that could take place in any time period.

The Glory Guys (1965) is a romance western film directed by Arnold Laven. The film is filed under cavalry, little big horn, barroom brawl, and frontier scout.

Tom Tryon takes the lead as Capt. Demas Harrod, Harve Presnell as Sol Rogers, Senta Berger as Lou Woddard, and Michael Anderson Jr. as Pvt. Martin Hale. At 112 minutes long, it arrived in July 1965.

The screenplay is by Sam Peckinpah. In the United States it streams on ScreenPix Amazon Channel and ScreenPix Apple TV channel.

Little Big Horn make useful companions to The Glory Guys.