They Died with Their Boots On

TCM's Dave Karger introduces They Died With Their Boots On, 1941.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces They Died With Their Boots On, 1941.

As West Point Commandant Sheridan (John Litel) considers him for expedited promotion and Civil War duty, Major Taipe (Stanley Ridges) objecting, cadet Custer (Errol Flynn) has his first encounter with Miss Bacon (Olivia De Havilland), in Raoul Walsh's They Died With Their Boots On, 1942.

Director Raoul Walsh's energetic, if inaccurate vision of General Custer (Errol Flynn), through (bogus) accidental promotion, saving the day at Gettysburg, General Scott (Sydney Greenstreet) and aide Taipe (Stanley Ridges) monitoring by telegraph, in They Died With Their Boots On, 1942.

Just arrived to take command of Fort Lincoln in the Dakota Territory, Custer (Errol Flynn) discovers his cynical old West Point rival Sharp (Arthur Kennedy) has the liquor concession, leading to some exercise of authority and oratory, in Raoul Walsh's They Died With Their Boots On, 1942.

In his post-Civil War and pre-Cavalry period General Custer (Errol Flynn), visited by Sharp Jr. and Sr. (Arthur Kennedy, Walter Hampden) chooses pride over fortune, his wife Libby (Olivia de Havilland) concurring, in Raoul Walsh's They Died with Their Boots On, 1942.

Libby (Olivia De Havilland), with servant Callie (Hattie McDaniel) is entertaining amorous on-leave cadet Custer (Errol Flynn), pretending to share his love of onions when her Michigan merchant father (Gene Lockhart), whom he earlier insulted, arrives, in They Died With Their Boots On, 1942.

At West Point, 1857, in the conceit of Wally Kline and Aeneas MacKenzie's original screenplay, George Armstrong Custer (Errol Flynn) arrives, Sergeant Doolittle (George Sawyer) and cadet Sharp (Arthur Kennedy) taking particular interest, opening Raoul Walsh's They Died With Their Boots On, 1942.

Errol Flynn stars in They Died With Their Boots On (1941), a romanticized biography of General George Armstrong Custer.