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 @@@@@ E  N  J  O  Y  @@@@@

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We're new cadets, sir.

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You're not cadets, and I'm not
"sir." Pull in your chin!

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Stand at attention when you speak
to a noncommissioned officer!

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- Brown.
- Yes, sergeant.

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March these plebes to the
office for enrollment.

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Yes, sergeant. Detachment,
forward march!

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Keep those heads up!

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Look to your fronts!
Pull in your chin!

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Plebes, halt!

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- New set of generals, captain?
- They're in the Army now, colonel.

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- Fine-looking mess of manhood.
- About face!

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Right face!

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Right face! Keep those heads up.

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Higher!

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Higher!

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Forward and to
double time, march!

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Get those heads up. Pep it up there!
Pep it up!

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Get your heads up!

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- You're pretty fresh for a cadet, Sharp.
- Maybe I can afford to be, sergeant.

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One day, you're gonna
trip up the wrong lad...

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...find yourself on your face.
Your old man's money won't help.

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That's the trouble
with the Army...

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...makes no distinctions. - No.

25
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You're all alike here.

26
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We don't say, "Welcome to West Point" and
turn out a guard in honor of any cadet.

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Here's somebody you'll turn out a guard
for. Must be a brigadier general, at least.

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Some foreigner calling
on the commandant.

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Turn out the guard.
General officer.

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- Turn out the guard, general officer!
- Fall in!

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Present arms!

32
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Order arms!

33
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Welcome to West Point. May I
direct you to the commandant?

34
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Yes, if he's the proper
person for me to see.

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I'm Mr. Custer. George Armstrong
Custer of Monroe, Michigan.

36
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I've been appointed to
the academy as a cadet.

37
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Welcome to West Point.

38
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- Nice work, sarge.
- Dismiss the guard!

39
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- What are you waiting for? Take charge.
- I'll show you to your quarters.

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- Will you follow me?
- What about these hounds?

41
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Oh, don't worry about them.
They'll follow me.

42
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Unleash them, boy.

43
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And here's a dollar
for yourself.

44
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Thank you, sir.

45
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Well. I've done four hitches in the U.S.
Cavalry. I thought I'd seen everything.

46
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But if that isn't the stra...

47
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- You favor cavalier
boots, I see, Mr. Custer.

48
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- That's because I'm
going into the Cavalry.

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An infantryman's no better
than a beast of burden.

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You have definite
ideas, Mr. Custer.

51
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What made you honor the
Army by choosing it?

52
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Glory, Mr. Sharp, glory.

53
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I wanna leave a name behind
the nation will honor.

54
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There's many more statues for
soldiers than civilians.

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I'm sure you'll fit right
in with the statues...

56
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...just like part of the horse.

57
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Well, here we are, Mr. Custer.

58
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Orderlies haven't moved
Pinchbelly's things yet.

59
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But don't you worry, Mr. Custer,
we'll fix that right away.

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- Will you give me a hand with this junk?
- Oh, certainly, Mr. Sharp.

61
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I trust I'm not
inconveniencing anybody.

62
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Oh, no, no. On the contrary, it's
you who have been inconvenienced.

63
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Not at all.

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Well, I hope you'll
be comfortable here.

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- As a first-year man, you don't
rate a suite. - No, of course not.

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Well, confidentially,
Mr. Sharp...

67
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...these quarters are better
than those I'm accustomed to.

68
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Oh, is that so?

69
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My, that's a dashing-looking
outfit you're wearing, Mr. Custer.

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Oh, thank you, Mr. Sharp.

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Yes, we've nothing to
compare with it here.

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Haven't you? Had it tailor-made in Monroe.
Wanted the folks to see me in uniform.

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- Did you design it yourself, Mr. Custer?
- No, but if you've a moment...

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...I'll show you where I got the idea.
- Oh, certainly.

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Here.

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One of the greatest heroes
who ever lived, Mr. Sharp.

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Murat, the king of cavalrymen.

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He was known as the Thunderbolt,
and his one tactic was:

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Ride to the sound of the guns.

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I must get myself a tiger
skin as soon as possible.

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- Quite a fellow.
- Oh, yes.

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Well, I must be running.

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I'm sorry, we can't make arrangements
for the dogs until tomorrow.

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Oh, think nothing of it. They're
accustomed to sleeping with me anyway.

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Oh, and thanks very much
for your kindness to me.

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Well, Caesar, what do you want? Why,
you know you don't like onions.

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What's the matter with you? Oh,
you want your bones, eh? Come on.

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Come on. Come on.

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Over here. Here, Caesar.
Come on, Hannibal. Come on.

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Here you are. Here. Cleopatra.
There you are.

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Here. There you are.

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Hannibal!

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What the continental
blue blazes is this?!

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- Sorry.
- Sorry?

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- I didn't hear you knock.
- You didn't hear me knock?

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- Anything I can do for you?
- Yes, there is.

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You can tell me what you and your
menagerie are doing in my quarters...

98
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...why my effects have
been thrown out...

99
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...from what asylum
you escaped...

100
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...and how you're here in that comic opera
uniform instead of at a fancy-dress ball.

101
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Well, sir, explain!

102
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My name's Custer, Cadet
George Armstrong Custer.

103
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- I was assigned these quarters.
- You were, were you?

104
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Well, I'm Major Romulus Taipe,
quartermaster and commandeer of cadets...

105
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...and this happens
to be my quarters.

106
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And you're an imbecile.

107
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Who brought you here?

108
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Well, who brought you here?

109
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I asked you a question. Who brought
you here? What's his name?

110
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- Mudd.
- Mudd?

111
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There's no such name
at the academy.

112
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Are you presuming
to trifle with me?

113
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Well, don't you hear that call?

114
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It's inspection for new cadets.

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Get out and fall in!

116
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I don't think your stay will be
very long with us, Mr. Custer.

117
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I'm recommending you for
a mental examination.

118
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Get out! Get out!

119
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Get out, confound it!
Get out of here!

120
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Get out! Get out of here! Go on!

121
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New cadets, fall in!

122
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Get in line.

123
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Straighten up that rank.

124
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Prepare for inspection!

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- Adjust your chin strap.
- Yes, sir.

126
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What kind of sloppiness you call that?
Fix your belt. Take his name.

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See that these men
are instructed...

128
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...in the proper way to wear their
uniforms. Extra drill, if necessary.

129
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Yes, sir.

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Eyes front, that man.

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- I said, eyes front!
- That means you, Marshal Murat.

132
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Well, it's going to take even less time
to get rid of you than I suspected.

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Put this maniac under arrest.

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- Take him before Colonel Sheridan.
- Yes, sir. Right face!

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Forward march!

136
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Mr. Custer...

137
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...you are charged with
a very grave offense.

138
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Didn't you know
striking a superior...

139
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...is one of the most serious
of military offenses...

140
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...punishable in some
cases with death?

141
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Why did you strike Mr. Sharp?

142
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I'm afraid I can't say.
It was a personal matter.

143
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There are no personal matters
on the parade ground.

144
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Have you anything
further to say?

145
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No, sir.

146
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Then I have no alternative but
to dismiss you from the academy.

147
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Dismiss?

148
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I didn't know you could get fired
from the Army for fighting.

149
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Well, you know it now.

150
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- What is your listing, Mr. Custer?
- Listing?

151
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Yes, listing. It's on the form.

152
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- The form you signed in the office.
- What form?

153
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I didn't sign any form. I haven't
been to the adjutant's office.

154
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Do you mean that you haven't
subscribed to the articles of war?

155
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No, sir.

156
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In that case, we certainly
can't fire you from the Army.

157
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You're not in the Army. You've been lucky.
Let this be a lesson to you.

158
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- Take him over to the adjutant.
- Yes, sir.

159
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- I'd like to thank...
- About face!

160
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- I'd just like to...
- Forward march!

161
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Thanks anyway, sir.

162
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You know, Taipe, I'm glad
it turned out this way.

163
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- There's something about
that fellow I like. - Yeah?

164
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Well, I don't know what it is.

165
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You ask me, he'll make the
worst record of any cadet...

166
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...since Ulysses S. Grant.

167
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At full charge, a 12-pound shell will
burst into approximately 50 fragments.

168
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- Mr. Custer!
- Yes, sir.

169
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You know how many fragments
will a 12-pound shell burst?

170
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Certainly not less
than two, sir.

171
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Harold McCord.

172
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Ronald McKenzie.

173
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Francis Dupont.

174
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- Congratulations, Mr. Dupont.
- Thank you, sir.

175
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Edward Sharp.

176
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- Good luck.
- Thank you, sir.

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I never thought I'd envy that
toad, graduating ahead of me.

178
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- I'd certainly like to be
in his boots today. - Why?

179
00:12:04,557 --> 00:12:05,819
Why?

180
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Because if Lincoln gets elected there's
gonna be a war. Sharp will be in it.

181
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Bunkum. It's all talk, Custer.
There'll be no war.

182
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No? Well, you wait
and see, Rosser.

183
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I tell you, if Lincoln gets
elected, the South will fight.

184
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Battalion...

185
00:12:42,528 --> 00:12:44,621
...ten-hut!

186
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You are about to hear an order by a
civilian member of the national government.

187
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Senator Smith.

188
00:12:51,337 --> 00:12:55,000
Gentlemen, because of a present crisis
in the affairs of the nation...

189
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...which menaces
armed rebellion...

190
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...and destruction of the union
established by our fathers...

191
00:13:00,946 --> 00:13:04,404
...it has been decreed by Congress
that every officer and cadet...

192
00:13:04,583 --> 00:13:08,041
...shall subscribe his name
to the following oath:

193
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"I swear to maintain and defend the
sovereignty of the United States...

194
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...as paramount to all allegiance or fealty
I may owe to any state or territory...

195
00:13:18,931 --> 00:13:20,831
...so help me God."

196
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Any officer or cadet who finds himself
unable to comply with its requirements...

197
00:13:27,273 --> 00:13:29,741
...will fall out to the
right of the battalion.

198
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Gentlemen of the
South, fall out!

199
00:13:48,427 --> 00:13:52,727
I see I was not misinformed as to the
preponderance of traitors at West Point.

200
00:13:52,898 --> 00:13:56,834
It's high time that Congress acted to
clean out this nest of secessionists.

201
00:13:57,002 --> 00:14:00,403
We don't concern ourselves with
the making of wars here, senator.

202
00:14:00,573 --> 00:14:02,473
Only the fighting of them.

203
00:14:02,641 --> 00:14:05,576
The academy leaves each man
to his own sense of honor.

204
00:14:05,744 --> 00:14:08,110
Gentlemen of the South, fall in!

205
00:14:11,283 --> 00:14:13,808
United States
Military Academy...

206
00:14:13,986 --> 00:14:16,454
...close to the left!

207
00:14:21,393 --> 00:14:27,161
Gentlemen, I am sorry that our comradeship
must end in these unhappy circumstances.

208
00:14:27,333 --> 00:14:29,267
We have lived as soldiers...

209
00:14:29,435 --> 00:14:32,529
...and politics have
had no place among us.

210
00:14:32,905 --> 00:14:34,805
Let us part then
as we have lived:

211
00:14:34,974 --> 00:14:40,537
In the determination to do our
duty, wherever it may lie.

212
00:14:42,748 --> 00:14:46,582
- Have we your permission to move off?
- Move off, Captain Fitzhugh Lee.

213
00:14:46,752 --> 00:14:48,344
Shoulder...

214
00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:50,420
...arms!

215
00:14:51,290 --> 00:14:54,589
Bandmaster, sound "Dixie"!

216
00:14:59,331 --> 00:15:00,798
Company, left...

217
00:15:00,966 --> 00:15:02,228
...face!

218
00:15:03,335 --> 00:15:05,394
Battalion...

219
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...march!

220
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Eyes left!

221
00:15:21,453 --> 00:15:22,852
Present arms!

222
00:15:26,058 --> 00:15:27,753
Forward!

223
00:15:44,710 --> 00:15:47,770
Frankly, I dislike the idea of
graduating junior classmen.

224
00:15:47,947 --> 00:15:52,043
Emergency or no emergency, a half-baked
officer is worse than none at all.

225
00:15:52,217 --> 00:15:54,515
But I couldn't make the
War Department see.

226
00:15:54,687 --> 00:15:56,985
At least the selection
is left in our hands.

227
00:15:57,011 --> 00:15:59,513
Let's take them alphabetically.
Who's first?

228
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- Cadet Percival Anderson.
- Anderson.

229
00:16:02,761 --> 00:16:04,922
Doesn't seem to have
made much impression.

230
00:16:05,097 --> 00:16:09,625
Anderson's not the conspicuous type, sir.
But his record speaks for him. No demerits.

231
00:16:09,802 --> 00:16:13,135
That might mean he's devoted
himself to keeping out of trouble.

232
00:16:13,305 --> 00:16:15,830
Anderson will be the better
off for another year.

233
00:16:16,008 --> 00:16:18,943
As a senior, he'd accept
responsibility, make decisions.

234
00:16:19,111 --> 00:16:20,840
- I know, sir, but...
- Next!

235
00:16:21,013 --> 00:16:22,776
George Armstrong Custer.

236
00:16:22,948 --> 00:16:26,042
Well, there's nothing inconspicuous
about him, is there?

237
00:16:26,218 --> 00:16:28,152
No, sir, nothing.
Nothing at all.

238
00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:31,380
He has no regard for discipline,
organization, nor tactics.

239
00:16:31,557 --> 00:16:33,252
And as for his record...

240
00:16:33,425 --> 00:16:37,361
...George Armstrong Custer has the
lowest marks and the highest demerits...

241
00:16:37,529 --> 00:16:42,432
...of any cadet who ever attended this
academy, including Ulysses S. Grant.

242
00:16:44,136 --> 00:16:46,604
I wonder what happened to Grant.

243
00:16:47,139 --> 00:16:48,401
Well, what about Custer?

244
00:16:48,574 --> 00:16:51,236
He's the best rider and the
best swordsman we have.

245
00:16:51,410 --> 00:16:54,140
He seems endowed with a
singular aggressiveness.

246
00:16:54,313 --> 00:16:59,216
- A singular aggressiveness.
- The type that wins brawls, not battles.

247
00:16:59,385 --> 00:17:02,821
- I tell you, sir, if you...
- What is your opinion of his quality?

248
00:17:02,988 --> 00:17:05,548
A squadron would
follow him to hell.

249
00:17:06,392 --> 00:17:08,656
You're forgetting
yourself, sergeant.

250
00:17:09,428 --> 00:17:13,159
As I was saying, sir, Custer's the
type that wins brawls, not battles.

251
00:17:13,332 --> 00:17:18,167
Right at this very moment, he's doing a
punishment tour for his latest escapade.

252
00:17:24,543 --> 00:17:27,103
Carry that rifle properly
and quicken the pace.

253
00:17:27,513 --> 00:17:30,710
- Why? Nobody's looking.
- Quiet! You're not allowed to talk...

254
00:17:30,883 --> 00:17:32,350
...on punishment tour!

255
00:17:32,518 --> 00:17:33,883
Move on!

256
00:17:50,302 --> 00:17:53,203
I hope you won't think me
bold addressing a stranger...

257
00:17:53,372 --> 00:17:57,399
...but I'm Elizabeth Bacon of
Monroe, and I think I'm lost.

258
00:17:57,576 --> 00:18:00,067
Oh, but I'm speaking to you.

259
00:18:00,245 --> 00:18:02,145
I'm trying to find
Sheridan's house.

260
00:18:02,314 --> 00:18:04,908
My father has business at
the commandant's office.

261
00:18:05,084 --> 00:18:08,576
He thought he'd be a while, so he
told me to find the house myself.

262
00:18:08,754 --> 00:18:11,086
Well, you see how I've found it.

263
00:18:11,256 --> 00:18:14,020
It sounds silly getting lost,
but it's a big place...

264
00:18:14,193 --> 00:18:17,651
...and I've never been here, and
I've forgotten all my directions.

265
00:18:17,830 --> 00:18:20,230
I took that path over
there by the garden...

266
00:18:20,399 --> 00:18:24,802
...and when I got in the middle,
I turned to admire the view...

267
00:18:29,842 --> 00:18:33,300
Really, sir. I've been just as
carefully brought up as you have...

268
00:18:33,479 --> 00:18:35,913
...and I think if I can
speak to a stranger...

269
00:18:36,081 --> 00:18:40,177
...the least you can do is to reply,
particularly when that stranger's a lady.

270
00:18:40,352 --> 00:18:42,843
I've told you who I am
and where I come from...

271
00:18:43,021 --> 00:18:46,684
...and what my father's business is
here, and that, in an emergency...

272
00:18:46,859 --> 00:18:48,588
...should be
introduction enough.

273
00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:54,062
And the least you can do is stand still
when I'm speaking to you. That's better.

274
00:19:02,508 --> 00:19:05,170
I've never been so outrageously
treated in my life!

275
00:19:05,344 --> 00:19:08,040
I thought West Point was
a place for gentlemen!

276
00:19:08,213 --> 00:19:11,046
I thought our Army was the
flower of our country!

277
00:19:11,216 --> 00:19:14,845
I shall tell my father about this.
I shall tell Colonel Sheridan!

278
00:19:15,020 --> 00:19:17,420
Oh, you needn't start back now.
It's too late.

279
00:19:17,589 --> 00:19:20,815
You can rehearse all the
apologies you like,

280
00:19:20,841 --> 00:19:23,678
but I shan't stay here to listen.
Good day.

281
00:19:31,270 --> 00:19:32,669
Mr. Custer.

282
00:19:33,805 --> 00:19:37,332
You're wanted at the commandant's office.
Get there at the double.

283
00:19:37,509 --> 00:19:40,478
- Right. Hang on to this.
- That isn't the right direction!

284
00:19:40,646 --> 00:19:42,136
Oh, yes, it is!

285
00:19:42,314 --> 00:19:44,441
Miss Bacon!

286
00:19:44,616 --> 00:19:46,777
Miss Bacon. Please,
you don't understand.

287
00:19:46,952 --> 00:19:49,546
I couldn't speak to you.
It's against regulations.

288
00:19:49,721 --> 00:19:51,780
Do you understand?

289
00:19:52,424 --> 00:19:54,153
Halt!

290
00:19:56,028 --> 00:19:59,794
If you're looking for Colonel Sheridan's
house, this is the right way.

291
00:20:00,666 --> 00:20:03,134
I'm very sorry if
I seemed rude...

292
00:20:03,302 --> 00:20:06,794
...but while you're walking guard
duty, you're not allowed to talk.

293
00:20:06,972 --> 00:20:10,305
- Well, then why didn't you say so?
- Well, I couldn't speak.

294
00:20:10,709 --> 00:20:15,078
- Oh, you mean you couldn't speak!
- No! I mean, yes! I couldn't.

295
00:20:20,819 --> 00:20:22,719
Well, thank you very much, sir.

296
00:20:22,888 --> 00:20:25,857
And now that I've reached
my destination...

297
00:20:26,391 --> 00:20:27,619
Oh, Miss Bacon?

298
00:20:28,327 --> 00:20:31,819
Please don't go inside yet. There's
something I want to say to you.

299
00:20:31,997 --> 00:20:34,727
See, I'm from Monroe too.
I haven't time to talk.

300
00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:37,596
I'm due at the office. If I
keep Sheridan waiting...

301
00:20:37,769 --> 00:20:39,600
Tell Uncle Phil
you were with me.

302
00:20:39,771 --> 00:20:41,739
- Uncle Phil?
- Colonel Sheridan.

303
00:20:41,907 --> 00:20:43,238
Oh, is he your uncle?

304
00:20:43,408 --> 00:20:46,002
Not exactly, but he and my
father are old friends.

305
00:20:46,178 --> 00:20:49,636
- When I was little, I used to
sit on his knee. - Oh, I see.

306
00:20:49,815 --> 00:20:52,283
I'm certainly glad you
never sat on my knee.

307
00:20:52,451 --> 00:20:55,011
- Sir?
- Oh, I don't mean it that way, Miss Bacon.

308
00:20:55,187 --> 00:20:57,678
If you'd been little enough
to sit on my knee...

309
00:20:57,856 --> 00:21:00,916
...you'd be too old for me now...
I mean I'd be too old now.

310
00:21:02,461 --> 00:21:04,622
Look, Miss Bacon, I
really must go now...

311
00:21:04,796 --> 00:21:08,357
...but do you think if I were to
come past your house around 9:00...

312
00:21:08,533 --> 00:21:11,832
...you might be just sitting
around on the veranda?

313
00:21:12,571 --> 00:21:14,436
Life is full of surprises.

314
00:21:14,606 --> 00:21:19,066
And if I did find you sitting on the porch,
perhaps you and I could go for a walk.

315
00:21:19,611 --> 00:21:23,445
We seem to have been walking
together ever since we've met.

316
00:21:24,249 --> 00:21:27,741
I can't imagine, ma'am, if I may
say so, any pleasanter journey...

317
00:21:27,919 --> 00:21:30,945
...than walking through life
with you beside me, ma'am.

318
00:21:31,123 --> 00:21:33,023
I must go now.

319
00:21:45,737 --> 00:21:47,637
Cadet Custer,
reporting as ordered.

320
00:21:47,806 --> 00:21:50,866
- Have you any idea why I sent for you?
- No, sir.

321
00:21:51,043 --> 00:21:53,511
Do you know that you
have the worst record...

322
00:21:53,679 --> 00:21:56,170
...that West Point has had in years?
- Yes, sir.

323
00:21:56,348 --> 00:21:58,248
- Why?
- I don't know, sir.

324
00:21:58,417 --> 00:22:00,214
That's been puzzling me too.

325
00:22:01,286 --> 00:22:06,349
Since you can't answer that, tell me why,
on the eve of your chance to graduate...

326
00:22:06,525 --> 00:22:09,153
...you become involved in
a brawl with a civilian.

327
00:22:09,328 --> 00:22:11,057
- It wasn't a civilian, sir.
- What?

328
00:22:11,229 --> 00:22:13,527
Oh, no. Just a Marine.

329
00:22:13,699 --> 00:22:15,132
Well, Marine or civilian...

330
00:22:15,300 --> 00:22:19,600
...unbecoming for a West Point cadet to
engage in fisticuffs on a public street.

331
00:22:19,771 --> 00:22:22,535
Only extreme provocation
could call for such conduct.

332
00:22:22,708 --> 00:22:26,974
It was. He said he'd been through two
wars and never seen a dead cavalryman.

333
00:22:27,145 --> 00:22:29,579
What? Why...

334
00:22:29,748 --> 00:22:32,410
Well, I trust when he
recovers from your reproof...

335
00:22:32,584 --> 00:22:37,453
...that he'll be taken to the cemetery and
shown the grave of "Lighthorse Harry" Lee.

336
00:22:39,991 --> 00:22:41,253
Mr. Custer...

337
00:22:41,426 --> 00:22:44,361
...I suppose you had hoped
to graduate with your class?

338
00:22:44,529 --> 00:22:47,692
- Yes, sir.
- And if you had, what were your plans?

339
00:22:47,866 --> 00:22:51,302
An assignment to the 2nd Cavalry.
Finest regiment in the Army.

340
00:22:51,470 --> 00:22:55,304
But there won't be any vacancies if
the others beat me to Washington.

341
00:22:55,474 --> 00:22:58,739
In that case, I suggest you
leave on the next train.

342
00:22:58,910 --> 00:23:02,209
- Sir? You mean, I... - You are the
last of the class to graduate.

343
00:23:02,748 --> 00:23:05,740
The others have already
received their diplomas.

344
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,644
- Thank you, sir.
- I trust your future conduct...

345
00:23:09,821 --> 00:23:12,984
...as an officer of the Army
will justify my confidence.

346
00:23:13,158 --> 00:23:14,591
Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.

347
00:23:15,927 --> 00:23:17,155
And now...

348
00:23:17,329 --> 00:23:19,889
...that train leaves in an hour.
- Yes, sir.

349
00:23:21,099 --> 00:23:22,657
In an hour, sir?

350
00:23:22,834 --> 00:23:26,429
- I'm afraid I'll have to catch
the late train. - What? Why?

351
00:23:26,938 --> 00:23:28,303
Well, I...

352
00:23:28,473 --> 00:23:32,273
Well, I sent my laundry out yesterday,
and it hasn't come back yet, sir.

353
00:23:32,878 --> 00:23:35,608
You've been running three
years to catch that train.

354
00:23:35,781 --> 00:23:37,715
I suggest that you
keep on running.

355
00:23:37,883 --> 00:23:40,317
- Yes, sir, but...
- With or without your laundry.

356
00:23:40,485 --> 00:23:43,010
Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.

357
00:24:02,474 --> 00:24:04,408
Oh, Father.

358
00:24:05,010 --> 00:24:06,875
Hello, my dear.

359
00:24:07,212 --> 00:24:09,646
Back from your walk already?

360
00:24:12,350 --> 00:24:15,434
- What are you doing
sitting here alone?

361
00:24:15,460 --> 00:24:18,610
- Such a lovely night. I
didn't want to go in.

362
00:24:19,224 --> 00:24:21,988
Sounds as if you're
falling in love with...

363
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:24,128
...West Point.

364
00:24:24,296 --> 00:24:25,854
Oh, it's a beautiful place.

365
00:24:26,031 --> 00:24:30,263
Especially when you have a handsome cadet
to show it to you in the moonlight.

366
00:24:31,269 --> 00:24:33,328
I didn't go for my walk.

367
00:24:33,505 --> 00:24:34,802
Why not?

368
00:24:34,973 --> 00:24:37,407
- He didn't come back.
- He didn't come...?

369
00:24:37,576 --> 00:24:39,510
Why, the young scoundrel!

370
00:24:39,678 --> 00:24:43,808
A cadet is supposed to be an officer and
a gentleman. I'll speak to Sheridan.

371
00:24:43,982 --> 00:24:47,281
- The insolent puppy.
- You mustn't talk like that.

372
00:24:47,452 --> 00:24:50,910
- And why not?
- Because he's the man I'm going to marry!

373
00:25:12,711 --> 00:25:16,442
- How does the adjutant general feel?
- He's barking like a fox.

374
00:25:19,885 --> 00:25:23,082
- Any orders for me yet, corporal?
- No, Lieutenant Custer.

375
00:25:26,491 --> 00:25:29,654
I'm sick of hanging around
to see the adjutant general.

376
00:25:29,828 --> 00:25:34,788
I've written him time after time for
an assignment. I don't get any answer.

377
00:25:34,966 --> 00:25:37,230
By Judas, I'm going in
to see him in person.

378
00:25:37,402 --> 00:25:41,429
- He'll see no one except by appointment.
- He won't, eh?

379
00:26:15,607 --> 00:26:17,632
Help! Fire!

380
00:26:17,809 --> 00:26:19,538
Spies!

381
00:26:19,711 --> 00:26:21,406
Sabotage!

382
00:26:21,580 --> 00:26:23,104
What is all this...?

383
00:26:23,281 --> 00:26:26,717
Get the fire brigade! Get water!
Get water, you idiots!

384
00:26:27,686 --> 00:26:29,415
Don't let anybody in or out!

385
00:26:34,292 --> 00:26:36,852
- Well...
- Why, Major Taipe.

386
00:26:37,028 --> 00:26:38,620
I'm very glad to see you, sir.

387
00:26:38,797 --> 00:26:41,561
Would you mind saying a word
to the adjutant general?

388
00:26:41,733 --> 00:26:44,522
- I've been waiting
weeks to be assigned...

389
00:26:44,548 --> 00:26:47,458
- I have a feeling you're
responsible for this.

390
00:26:47,606 --> 00:26:49,801
But it will serve you
to no purpose...

391
00:26:49,975 --> 00:26:53,206
...because I happen to
be the adjutant general.

392
00:26:53,945 --> 00:26:57,472
I happen to be well aware that
you've been awaiting for orders...

393
00:26:57,649 --> 00:26:59,378
...and you'll
continue to wait...

394
00:26:59,551 --> 00:27:03,112
...until every competent officer
has been assigned to active duty.

395
00:27:03,288 --> 00:27:07,156
And then, Mr. Custer, I may
find a place for you...

396
00:27:07,325 --> 00:27:10,761
...training infantry recruits!
Good day!

397
00:27:14,766 --> 00:27:16,631
Ain't done much with your soup.
Don't like?

398
00:27:16,801 --> 00:27:19,770
- No, it's all right, but you
can take it away. - Yes, sir.

399
00:27:19,938 --> 00:27:23,533
Got something over here that'll
excite your palate, yes, sir.

400
00:27:23,708 --> 00:27:25,539
Creamed onions.

401
00:27:26,978 --> 00:27:28,502
Specialty of the house, sir.

402
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,205
Ever since President
Andrew Jackson's time.

403
00:27:31,383 --> 00:27:32,816
Say, waiter...

404
00:27:32,984 --> 00:27:35,680
...isn't that General Scott,
General Winfield Scott?

405
00:27:35,854 --> 00:27:39,255
- How do you do, Charles?
- Very well. Kind of late today, general.

406
00:27:39,424 --> 00:27:42,018
These are busy times, Charles.
Busy times.

407
00:27:43,028 --> 00:27:45,861
Yes, sir, that's the general.
Commander in chief.

408
00:27:46,031 --> 00:27:49,091
A powerful-eating
gentleman, sir.

409
00:27:49,267 --> 00:27:51,394
Only time for a snack, Charles.

410
00:27:51,569 --> 00:27:55,562
I'll have my hors d'oeuvres, soup, double
rib sirloin, potatoes au gratin...

411
00:27:55,740 --> 00:28:00,177
...asparagus, spiced pears and, of
course, the creamed Bermuda onions.

412
00:28:00,345 --> 00:28:04,509
I'm desolate, general. The last portion
of Bermuda onions just been served.

413
00:28:04,683 --> 00:28:07,117
I'll prepare more myself,
if you'll just wait.

414
00:28:07,285 --> 00:28:09,913
Wait, man? With the Southern
patrol at Manassas?

415
00:28:10,088 --> 00:28:12,420
This is war, Charles, war.

416
00:28:12,590 --> 00:28:15,559
- I'll order the sweet later.
- Yes, sir.

417
00:28:17,629 --> 00:28:19,790
Pardon me, sir. Mr. Custer, sir.

418
00:28:19,964 --> 00:28:24,230
I couldn't help overhearing what you said.
These onions have just been served me.

419
00:28:24,402 --> 00:28:26,749
I'd deem it a pleasure
if you'd accept them.

420
00:28:26,775 --> 00:28:29,330
That's generous, but I
couldn't deprive you.

421
00:28:29,474 --> 00:28:31,999
That is, of all of them.

422
00:28:32,177 --> 00:28:35,078
- Will you lunch with me, Mr. Custer?
- Thank you, sir.

423
00:28:38,450 --> 00:28:39,940
That's a good one, sir.

424
00:28:40,118 --> 00:28:43,610
You mentioned having no appetite.
How do you account for that?

425
00:28:44,589 --> 00:28:47,080
I think I lost it in
the adjutant's office.

426
00:28:47,258 --> 00:28:50,022
Camping around for weeks
waiting for an assignment...

427
00:28:50,195 --> 00:28:54,188
...and all the time, the
rebels rolling down. - Indeed.

428
00:28:54,365 --> 00:28:56,333
How did you do at West Point?

429
00:28:56,501 --> 00:28:59,902
Well, sir, first in equitation,
sir, first in swordplay.

430
00:29:00,071 --> 00:29:01,299
And studies?

431
00:29:02,273 --> 00:29:04,833
I was afraid you'd ask that, sir.
Last.

432
00:29:06,511 --> 00:29:10,845
Confidentially, young man, I saw the
West Point examination papers myself.

433
00:29:11,015 --> 00:29:14,712
The only question I could answer
was, "Name the commander in chief...

434
00:29:14,886 --> 00:29:17,184
...of the United States Army."

435
00:29:20,625 --> 00:29:24,561
Mr. Custer, I think you better
walk across the street with me...

436
00:29:24,729 --> 00:29:27,323
...as soon as we've
disposed of the Bermudas.

437
00:29:27,499 --> 00:29:28,830
Right, sir.

438
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,399
What...?

439
00:29:32,070 --> 00:29:36,666
- It's a fatal mistake to steam onions.
- Even when they're sealed in containers?

440
00:29:36,841 --> 00:29:39,332
Under any circumstances.
You steam the best out.

441
00:29:39,511 --> 00:29:42,275
General, you certainly
know your onions.

442
00:29:43,314 --> 00:29:45,612
Hold him here, Jones.
I may need him later.

443
00:29:45,784 --> 00:29:50,244
Mr. Taipe, you're the man we want to see.
Post this officer to the 2nd Cavalry.

444
00:29:50,421 --> 00:29:54,187
I know they have a vacancy. I drew
on them for an aide this morning.

445
00:29:54,359 --> 00:29:57,556
- Yes, sir.
- You have no objections to the 2nd.

446
00:29:57,729 --> 00:30:00,789
If there's a finer regiment,
someone will have to raise it.

447
00:30:00,965 --> 00:30:04,731
- When are you to report?
- Tonight. Second may be going into action.

448
00:30:04,903 --> 00:30:06,700
I can promise you
it will, my boy.

449
00:30:06,871 --> 00:30:10,705
It's impossible for him to report tonight.
There isn't a horse to be had.

450
00:30:10,875 --> 00:30:14,971
If there is no horse, make the order to
report at the officer's first ability.

451
00:30:15,146 --> 00:30:16,943
Very well, sir.

452
00:30:17,115 --> 00:30:20,141
Sorry to disappoint, but
you'll see action soon enough.

453
00:30:20,318 --> 00:30:22,309
- Good luck.
- Thank you, sir.

454
00:30:29,527 --> 00:30:33,827
- This is General Taipe's horse.
- My compliments. And get out of my way!

455
00:30:42,607 --> 00:30:45,041
Custer. Second lieutenant,
reporting for duty.

456
00:30:45,210 --> 00:30:46,871
- Glad to have you.
- Thank you.

457
00:30:47,045 --> 00:30:48,945
- Mr. Custer, gentlemen.
- Hello.

458
00:30:49,113 --> 00:30:51,013
- Pleased to meet you.
- Have a drink.

459
00:30:51,182 --> 00:30:54,743
- Thank you.
- Here's to bloody war and quick promotion.

460
00:30:54,919 --> 00:30:57,854
You bet! A fellow ought to
come out of this a major.

461
00:30:58,022 --> 00:31:00,320
- You're quite an optimist.
- Just feel lucky.

462
00:31:00,491 --> 00:31:03,551
It'll take more than luck
with your grades in tactics.

463
00:31:03,728 --> 00:31:05,696
- Hello, Sharp.
- You know each other?

464
00:31:05,864 --> 00:31:08,355
General Blowhard and I
were at academy together.

465
00:31:08,533 --> 00:31:13,300
Sure, that's right, sir. Now, there's a
face I always like to shake hands with.

466
00:31:13,938 --> 00:31:16,771
Better be circumspect with
your squadron commander.

467
00:31:16,941 --> 00:31:21,537
He had. You may have buffaloed through
West Point, but you'll toe the mark here.

468
00:31:21,813 --> 00:31:23,144
Attention!

469
00:31:23,314 --> 00:31:25,282
All right, gentlemen,
as you were.

470
00:31:25,984 --> 00:31:27,713
Mr. Custer, sir, just reported.

471
00:31:27,886 --> 00:31:30,116
Well, you arrived at
an opportune moment.

472
00:31:30,288 --> 00:31:33,086
We're moving on Manassas
Junction, attacking at 4 a. m.

473
00:31:33,258 --> 00:31:36,022
Four a. m.? Good! We'll have
them on the run by 4 p. m.

474
00:31:36,194 --> 00:31:39,459
I knew as soon as I got down
here, things would start moving.

475
00:31:50,742 --> 00:31:53,233
Come on, men! Forward!

476
00:32:46,331 --> 00:32:48,196
Dismount! Prepare
to fight on foot!

477
00:32:58,376 --> 00:33:02,176
Skirmishes. Guide center.
Forward.

478
00:33:11,089 --> 00:33:13,990
What are you doing, Custer?
Retreat on Centerville.

479
00:33:14,158 --> 00:33:16,183
Holding that bridge until
infantry gets across.

480
00:33:16,361 --> 00:33:20,730
You had your orders. G-Troop.
Prepare to retire.

481
00:33:20,898 --> 00:33:22,559
As you were, G-Troop.

482
00:33:22,734 --> 00:33:25,362
I'm in command, Custer,
as long as I can stand.

483
00:33:25,536 --> 00:33:27,504
That suits me.

484
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,438
Come on, men. Let's
take that bridge.

485
00:33:41,252 --> 00:33:43,243
Ready. Aim. Fire.

486
00:33:51,896 --> 00:33:53,659
Charge.

487
00:34:02,373 --> 00:34:03,863
Fire.

488
00:34:18,790 --> 00:34:20,417
Forward.

489
00:34:27,398 --> 00:34:28,990
Forward.

490
00:34:34,739 --> 00:34:38,903
- Oh, Custer, it's you. Good work.
- General Sheridan. General Sheridan.

491
00:34:39,077 --> 00:34:42,137
- But you're hit, my boy.
- Yeah, I guess I am.

492
00:34:42,313 --> 00:34:47,182
We can't grudge you a couple weeks in the
hospital and chance to go home. Good luck.

493
00:34:49,353 --> 00:34:53,346
- Now this hand. - Ladies, please,
please. Isn't that enough?

494
00:34:53,524 --> 00:34:56,584
Florence Nightingale had 30
nurses to take care of an army.

495
00:34:56,761 --> 00:34:58,524
Takes four of you
to give me a bath.

496
00:34:58,696 --> 00:35:02,154
Lieutenant, we want you to look
your best when you get your medal.

497
00:35:02,333 --> 00:35:05,769
I don't want a medal. I want a
beefsteak and a bottle of bourbon.

498
00:35:05,937 --> 00:35:07,871
Attention.

499
00:35:08,306 --> 00:35:10,001
At ease.

500
00:35:10,775 --> 00:35:14,267
- Hello, Custer. How are you, my boy?
- Oh, terrible, sir, terrible.

501
00:35:14,445 --> 00:35:18,142
I get groomed and curried by these
nice ladies eight hours a day, sir.

502
00:35:18,316 --> 00:35:22,582
That's one of the horrors of war, my boy.
Never mind. You'll be out of here soon.

503
00:35:22,753 --> 00:35:25,950
Mr. Custer, when an officer
disobeys orders in action...

504
00:35:26,124 --> 00:35:28,183
...there can be one
of two consequences:

505
00:35:28,359 --> 00:35:30,327
A firing squad or a medal.

506
00:35:30,495 --> 00:35:34,022
You seem to have drawn the medal.
This time.

507
00:35:35,099 --> 00:35:37,431
Thank you, sir. That
kind of balances me up.

508
00:35:37,602 --> 00:35:41,060
Ounce of lead in my right shoulder,
an ounce of silver on my left.

509
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:44,572
- Is there anything else you need?
- Yes, there is one thing, sir.

510
00:35:44,742 --> 00:35:46,801
- What's that?
- A letter of introduction.

511
00:35:46,978 --> 00:35:49,446
- To whom?
- To a Mr. Bacon, sir. Of Monroe.

512
00:35:49,614 --> 00:35:53,277
- I understand he's an acquaintance
of yours. - Yes, he is. He...

513
00:35:53,451 --> 00:35:54,748
But you're from Monroe.

514
00:35:54,919 --> 00:35:58,184
- You ought to know Mr. Bacon.
- I'm not from his side of town.

515
00:35:59,290 --> 00:36:01,622
I see. All right, my boy.

516
00:36:01,792 --> 00:36:04,124
- I'll write that letter.
- Thank you, sir.

517
00:36:04,295 --> 00:36:06,923
I don't suppose you
happen to know that...

518
00:36:07,098 --> 00:36:09,896
...Mr. Bacon is the father
of a pretty young woman?

519
00:36:10,067 --> 00:36:11,500
Oh, is that so?

520
00:36:12,270 --> 00:36:14,966
Well, take care of that shoulder.
Good luck, my boy.

521
00:36:15,139 --> 00:36:16,766
Thank you, sir.

522
00:36:18,743 --> 00:36:20,836
Squad, at ease.

523
00:36:21,012 --> 00:36:25,381
Ladies, I owe you a debt of gratitude
that no words of mine can ever repay.

524
00:36:25,550 --> 00:36:28,917
Your ministrations performed a
miracle and hastened my recovery.

525
00:36:29,086 --> 00:36:31,350
Thank you, Lieutenant Custer.

526
00:36:32,490 --> 00:36:34,720
And now, I'm getting up.

527
00:36:35,660 --> 00:36:38,458
- Oh, no. What?
- Lieutenant, you can't. You mustn't.

528
00:36:38,629 --> 00:36:41,291
- Oh, but I can and I must.
- Oh, no.

529
00:36:41,499 --> 00:36:44,900
- You're not well enough.
- Squad, attention.

530
00:36:48,039 --> 00:36:51,805
Ladies, I bid you a fond farewell.
Squad, at ease.

531
00:36:51,976 --> 00:36:55,343
- What are we going to do?
- Lieutenant Custer, come back here.

532
00:37:56,007 --> 00:37:58,601
That's a fine song, sir.
What is it?

533
00:37:59,377 --> 00:38:02,505
A brother cavalier, what?
Butler, sir.

534
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,944
"Queen's Own" Butler
they call me.

535
00:38:05,116 --> 00:38:09,416
Late of the 5th Royal Lancers, presently
of the 1 st Michigan Cavalry.

536
00:38:09,587 --> 00:38:12,522
- Very happy. Custer, 2nd U.S. Cavalry.
- Custer?

537
00:38:12,690 --> 00:38:15,250
- I say, not the bloke at Bull Run?
- Yeah.

538
00:38:15,426 --> 00:38:17,155
- Won't you sit down, sir?
- Thanks.

539
00:38:17,328 --> 00:38:22,129
Hi there, tapster. Unlimber that old spigot
arm of yours. There are pots to be tossed.

540
00:38:22,300 --> 00:38:24,666
- Won't you join us in a drink?
- No, thanks.

541
00:38:24,835 --> 00:38:27,065
Mustn't have liquor
on my breath today...

542
00:38:27,238 --> 00:38:29,502
...but I'd be glad to buy
you gentlemen a round.

543
00:38:29,674 --> 00:38:32,199
Tell me, how did you
join the 1 st Michigan?

544
00:38:32,376 --> 00:38:35,641
Well, I couldn't
spell Connecticut.

545
00:38:35,813 --> 00:38:39,305
It speaks for itself, eh? But,
sir, you asked about the song.

546
00:38:39,483 --> 00:38:41,417
The name is "Garryowen."

547
00:38:41,585 --> 00:38:46,318
And the 5th Royal Lancers rather fancied
it because it goes jolly well on a horse.

548
00:38:48,959 --> 00:38:51,928
- I'd like to learn that song.
- I'm the lad to teach you.

549
00:38:52,463 --> 00:38:54,055
All right, boys, together now.

550
00:39:01,205 --> 00:39:02,866
Oh, good day, Mr. Bacon.

551
00:39:03,074 --> 00:39:04,769
Oh, good day, Mr. Cartwright.

552
00:39:04,942 --> 00:39:09,470
I hardly expected to meet you in this part
of town. I'm down here collecting the rent.

553
00:39:09,647 --> 00:39:13,549
Whenever it falls due, I wish my family
had never acquired the property.

554
00:39:13,718 --> 00:39:17,654
When the lease is up, I intend to see
the new tenant puts it to better use.

555
00:39:17,822 --> 00:39:21,258
That is a consummation
devoutly to be wished.

556
00:39:21,425 --> 00:39:24,553
- It's a blot upon the face
of our community. - Yes, yes.

557
00:39:24,729 --> 00:39:28,028
- Well, good day, Mr. Bacon.
- Good day.

558
00:39:36,107 --> 00:39:37,369
You.

559
00:39:37,541 --> 00:39:40,032
Tell Mr. Sullivan I wish
to see him on business.

560
00:39:40,211 --> 00:39:41,678
Find him yourself. I'm busy.

561
00:39:41,846 --> 00:39:46,442
How dare you address me with such
insolence? I'm here to collect the rent.

562
00:39:51,422 --> 00:39:54,914
- Be quiet, you drunken riffraff.
- Riffraff?

563
00:39:55,092 --> 00:39:57,219
I advise you to be
careful of your words.

564
00:39:57,395 --> 00:39:59,989
I'd advise you to be more
careful of your uniform.

565
00:40:00,164 --> 00:40:02,564
Bringing disgrace on it
with drunken behavior.

566
00:40:02,733 --> 00:40:07,397
What? Drunken? Why, you
fat little pipsqueak.

567
00:40:07,571 --> 00:40:09,004
This gentleman's a soldier.

568
00:40:09,173 --> 00:40:11,423
He stands in battle
and gets shot at so

569
00:40:11,449 --> 00:40:13,897
that sanctimonious little
skinflints like you...

570
00:40:14,044 --> 00:40:16,774
...can run around in safety
doing business as usual.

571
00:40:16,947 --> 00:40:21,441
And if he wants to get drunk while he's
on leave, what business is it of yours?

572
00:40:21,619 --> 00:40:25,385
Hear, hear. That's telling the old
blighter where he gets off, eh, what?

573
00:40:25,556 --> 00:40:28,320
If you don't like our
society, why barge in on it?

574
00:40:28,492 --> 00:40:33,828
I'm here because I prefer to collect the
rent of this establishment personally...

575
00:40:33,998 --> 00:40:39,026
...rather than expose my clerks to such
an atmosphere of degrading debauchery.

576
00:40:40,738 --> 00:40:44,469
Degrading debauchery? The
chap's quite an orator, what?

577
00:40:44,675 --> 00:40:48,111
Your conduct is only what I
would expect from a foreigner.

578
00:40:48,279 --> 00:40:52,340
But as for you, sir, you're a
disgrace to the Union Army.

579
00:40:53,017 --> 00:40:54,712
Drum him out, Queen's Own.

580
00:41:10,134 --> 00:41:14,230
- Do I have to drink the tea every time?
- Lf you want the fortune to come true.

581
00:41:16,574 --> 00:41:19,805
That's the fourth time today
I done read the tea leaves.

582
00:41:19,977 --> 00:41:24,175
You keep drinking tea like that, and you's
going to turn as yellow as a canary.

583
00:41:26,984 --> 00:41:28,679
Onions.

584
00:41:30,521 --> 00:41:35,925
One. Two. Three.

585
00:41:36,093 --> 00:41:38,687
There. I made my wish.

586
00:41:38,863 --> 00:41:42,492
You going to get that wish all
wore out before it comes true.

587
00:41:42,766 --> 00:41:46,218
Here we is, you and me, asking
our fortune from the tea.

588
00:41:46,244 --> 00:41:48,024
Look in the cup and I'll see...

589
00:41:48,172 --> 00:41:50,003
...what I see.

590
00:41:50,174 --> 00:41:54,008
Now, now, what's this I see?

591
00:41:54,178 --> 00:41:58,808
What's this? Appears to
be like a bird. Yes.

592
00:41:58,983 --> 00:42:02,282
Here's his wings spreading out.
He's flying this way.

593
00:42:02,453 --> 00:42:05,684
Oh, yes, Callie, I can see it's
a bird, but what does it mean?

594
00:42:05,856 --> 00:42:08,450
- It's a message coming straight to you.
- From him?

595
00:42:08,626 --> 00:42:11,857
Give me time, Miss
Libby, give me time.

596
00:42:12,830 --> 00:42:15,958
What's that tall and straight
walking beside the bird?

597
00:42:16,133 --> 00:42:18,761
- Oh, let me see.
- Don't touch it, Miss Libby.

598
00:42:18,936 --> 00:42:21,336
You'll spoil the spell.

599
00:42:21,605 --> 00:42:23,869
Why, I declare, it's a man.

600
00:42:24,041 --> 00:42:28,501
Now, what's he doing? He's pulling
on something with his left hand.

601
00:42:28,679 --> 00:42:31,671
- Now, what can that be?
- A horse. He's in the Cavalry.

602
00:42:31,849 --> 00:42:36,252
No, it ain't a horse. Ain't a gun.
It's, it's...

603
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,546
- No, it ain't a sword, neither.
- Oh, Callie.

604
00:42:39,723 --> 00:42:41,486
- I's got it, I's got it!
- What?

605
00:42:41,659 --> 00:42:43,524
It's a doorbell.

606
00:42:48,699 --> 00:42:52,066
- Somebody's got to answer the door.
- And that somebody ain't me.

607
00:42:52,236 --> 00:42:56,195
- That's magic, that bell.
- Oh, nonsense, Callie. It's all right.

608
00:42:56,373 --> 00:42:58,603
Go on, Callie, answer it.

609
00:42:58,776 --> 00:43:03,509
- Go on. It's all right.
- Oh, feet, keep me from slipping down.

610
00:43:03,681 --> 00:43:05,808
Get my rabbit's foot.

611
00:43:07,818 --> 00:43:11,413
<i>Brother rabbit</i>, <i>work your charm
Keep this child away from harm</i>

612
00:43:11,589 --> 00:43:16,117
<i>Ain't got time to kneel and pray
Don't you let me down today</i>

613
00:43:24,735 --> 00:43:27,260
Here he is, Miss
Libby, here he is.

614
00:43:29,106 --> 00:43:32,405
Just like the dead riding
up and saying howdy.

615
00:43:34,511 --> 00:43:36,206
What's the matter, Miss Libby?

616
00:43:36,380 --> 00:43:40,373
You got your wish, and you're standing
like your feet is glued in molasses.

617
00:43:40,551 --> 00:43:41,779
Please, Callie.

618
00:43:41,952 --> 00:43:46,719
- This gentleman, Mr...? Mr...?
- Why, Custer, ma'am.

619
00:43:46,890 --> 00:43:49,450
Mr. Custer hasn't stated
what he's here for.

620
00:43:50,327 --> 00:43:53,319
I have a letter to your
father from General Sheridan.

621
00:43:53,497 --> 00:43:56,295
- My father will be home soon.
- And an apology for you.

622
00:43:56,467 --> 00:43:58,731
- Isn't it a little late?
- A little late?

623
00:43:58,902 --> 00:44:01,996
Three o'clock on a
bright, shiny afternoon?

624
00:44:02,172 --> 00:44:04,037
Don't get uppity, Miss Libby.

625
00:44:04,208 --> 00:44:07,473
Because the tea leaves never
forgets and they never forgive.

626
00:44:07,645 --> 00:44:11,479
If you'd care to wait for my father,
I'll show you into the drawing room.

627
00:44:17,388 --> 00:44:21,051
But, Miss Bacon. It was
really you I came to see.

628
00:44:21,225 --> 00:44:23,989
- But why?
- Because, ma'am...

629
00:44:24,161 --> 00:44:27,927
...I can't imagine anything worse than
walking through life without you.

630
00:44:28,098 --> 00:44:32,501
Don't propose you come strolling by at 9:00
and find me sitting on the porch again.

631
00:44:32,670 --> 00:44:35,867
I'm sorry. Won't you forgive me?
It really wasn't my fault.

632
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:39,032
I'm not really angry. I just
thought I should pretend to be.

633
00:44:39,209 --> 00:44:41,769
I knew you when you didn't
come back you had good reason.

634
00:44:41,945 --> 00:44:45,676
Yes. I had to report to Washington,
barely had time to catch the train.

635
00:44:45,849 --> 00:44:48,909
And a train won't wait,
but a woman will.

636
00:44:49,086 --> 00:44:53,113
Thank you, ma'am. I was
hoping you'd say that, ma'am.

637
00:44:53,424 --> 00:44:56,450
Tell me, have you always
lived in this big house?

638
00:44:56,627 --> 00:44:59,425
- Yes. Why?
- Oh, nothing, except I remember it well.

639
00:44:59,596 --> 00:45:02,997
I'd ride by when I was a little
fellow on my way to go swimming.

640
00:45:03,167 --> 00:45:06,227
There was a sassy brat who
used to hang on the gate...

641
00:45:06,403 --> 00:45:09,736
...and stick her tongue out. I
pulled her pigtails for her once.

642
00:45:09,907 --> 00:45:12,239
Was it you who
pulled my pigtails?

643
00:45:12,409 --> 00:45:14,536
Was it you who owned them?

644
00:45:15,913 --> 00:45:17,608
- Oh, dear.
- What is it?

645
00:45:17,781 --> 00:45:20,944
I don't see how I can smell
onions from the kitchen but...

646
00:45:21,118 --> 00:45:27,057
Onions? Onions? That's funny. I don't
smell them. Don't you like onions?

647
00:45:27,224 --> 00:45:32,127
Oh, I love them. I just thought
that maybe you didn't like them.

648
00:45:32,296 --> 00:45:34,764
Oh, no. No, I'm
very fond of them.

649
00:45:35,032 --> 00:45:37,364
Callie, will you go to
the kitchen, please...

650
00:45:37,534 --> 00:45:40,469
...and bring us back some of
those green spring onions?

651
00:45:41,805 --> 00:45:45,969
- Onions? - Yes, Callie,
onions. You know I love them.

652
00:45:46,877 --> 00:45:49,971
I knows what you love, honey.
It ain't onions.

653
00:45:53,984 --> 00:45:56,885
Pardon me. I didn't mean
to touch your hand.

654
00:46:00,557 --> 00:46:03,685
It's a pleasure to find somebody
who appreciates onions.

655
00:46:03,861 --> 00:46:08,059
I was reading how Marshal Murat used to
demolish a whole plateful for breakfast.

656
00:46:08,232 --> 00:46:11,201
Please, don't take that one.
Here's a better one for you.

657
00:46:11,368 --> 00:46:13,859
See the fine, long
grain in that one?

658
00:46:14,037 --> 00:46:16,972
Good smell to it too. Try it.
That'll have a bite to it.

659
00:46:17,141 --> 00:46:19,803
I said to the general,
"All I want is two things.

660
00:46:19,977 --> 00:46:23,276
A week's leave and a letter of
introduction to your father."

661
00:46:23,947 --> 00:46:25,574
Now...

662
00:46:25,983 --> 00:46:30,682
...when you see Father, all
you have to do is say to him:

663
00:46:30,854 --> 00:46:34,813
"May I return and call on Libby?" No,
you better say "Miss Bacon" first.

664
00:46:34,992 --> 00:46:37,722
- Yes, that'd be better.
- Don't be afraid of him.

665
00:46:37,895 --> 00:46:41,126
Afraid? You're talking
to a soldier, ma'am.

666
00:46:43,233 --> 00:46:46,669
- Why, you's back early, Mr. Bacon.
- Yes, I am.

667
00:46:47,304 --> 00:46:49,704
Oh, here comes Father now.

668
00:46:53,076 --> 00:46:57,103
He's really a darling, though he
looks severe, so just speak up.

669
00:46:57,281 --> 00:46:59,010
I will, ma'am.

670
00:46:59,683 --> 00:47:02,743
- Father, dear, I'm so glad to see you.
- My dear.

671
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,514
- I want you to meet Lieutenant Custer.
- Custer?

672
00:47:05,689 --> 00:47:11,059
- Yes. He has a letter from Phil Sheridan.
- General Sheridan. This must be important.

673
00:47:33,116 --> 00:47:37,075
- How did this fellow get into my house?
- He has a letter from Uncle Phil.

674
00:47:37,254 --> 00:47:39,848
So I'm a fat little
pipsqueak, am I?

675
00:47:40,023 --> 00:47:42,924
- I'm a sanctimonious old skinflint, am I?
- But, Father...

676
00:47:43,093 --> 00:47:45,960
Hold your tongue. How dare you
come from that den of iniquity...

677
00:47:46,129 --> 00:47:48,825
...that haunt of debauchery,
to pollute my home?

678
00:47:48,999 --> 00:47:51,493
- Sorry, but if you'll
allow me to explain...

679
00:47:51,519 --> 00:47:53,620
- There's no explanation
for your conduct.

680
00:47:53,770 --> 00:47:57,638
- None that's fit for her ears.
- Sir, I have a letter of introduction...

681
00:47:57,808 --> 00:48:00,868
...from General Sheridan...
- A letter from the president...

682
00:48:01,044 --> 00:48:04,411
...would be equally offensive.
Get out of my house.

683
00:48:04,581 --> 00:48:08,039
- Go on.
- I'll show him out, Mr. Bacon.

684
00:48:08,218 --> 00:48:10,186
Right this way, and
good riddance.

685
00:48:10,354 --> 00:48:14,120
The idea of you aggravating
quality folks like them.

686
00:48:14,291 --> 00:48:18,125
Mr. Bacon done ordered you out,
and out you going right now, sir.

687
00:48:19,263 --> 00:48:25,099
But not for good. You is coming back.
Nine o'clock at the gate.

688
00:48:26,837 --> 00:48:31,968
<i>Brother rabbit</i>, <i>work your charm
And keep that big boy out of harm</i>

689
00:48:42,152 --> 00:48:43,642
Libby.

690
00:48:46,790 --> 00:48:49,190
It ain't unless
you's colorblind.

691
00:48:49,826 --> 00:48:51,987
Where is she? I
thought you said...

692
00:48:52,729 --> 00:48:55,391
Her papa's home with his
special kicking-out boots.

693
00:48:55,565 --> 00:48:58,966
- Miss Libby's locked in her room.
Come on. - That ugly old fossil.

694
00:48:59,136 --> 00:49:00,626
He can't do that to her.

695
00:49:00,804 --> 00:49:04,934
That's what she said as he turned that
lock. They had a difference of opinion.

696
00:49:05,108 --> 00:49:08,566
Now she's upstairs with her opinion,
and he's downstairs with his.

697
00:49:08,745 --> 00:49:10,770
- Can you climb?
- Up there? Sure.

698
00:49:10,948 --> 00:49:13,746
Wait a minute. I don't want
to cause her more trouble.

699
00:49:13,917 --> 00:49:16,545
We better arrange a signal
in case he comes out.

700
00:49:16,720 --> 00:49:18,779
- I can hoot like an owl.
- You can?

701
00:49:19,990 --> 00:49:21,218
Oh, that's fine.

702
00:49:22,492 --> 00:49:25,154
- George.
- Libby.

703
00:49:47,484 --> 00:49:51,045
Oh, George. Isn't it awful?

704
00:49:51,221 --> 00:49:54,987
It's worse than that. Just when I have
a chance to see you, I get orders.

705
00:49:55,158 --> 00:49:58,150
- What orders? I meant Father.
- Well, I meant Uncle Sam.

706
00:49:58,328 --> 00:49:59,989
I've got to rejoin my regiment.

707
00:50:00,163 --> 00:50:02,893
- Oh, no. When?
- Tonight.

708
00:50:03,300 --> 00:50:08,237
You can't. You'll be killed.
I won't let you.

709
00:50:15,245 --> 00:50:18,146
- Who's out here?
- Just us owls, sir.

710
00:50:18,315 --> 00:50:21,250
- Who?
- Just me and an old owl, Mr. Bacon.

711
00:50:21,418 --> 00:50:23,870
- Have you seen anything
of that scoundrel?

712
00:50:23,896 --> 00:50:26,244
- I ain't seen hide nor
hair of no scoundrel.

713
00:50:26,390 --> 00:50:31,589
- Well, keep your eyes open. - Yes,
sir, that's just what I'm doing, sir.

714
00:50:34,364 --> 00:50:36,889
- He's gone?
- I think so.

715
00:50:38,402 --> 00:50:41,530
There's always the chance
he may come back again.

716
00:50:45,042 --> 00:50:47,272
Oh, Libby.

717
00:50:48,445 --> 00:50:52,643
- Will you marry me?
- Yes, George.

718
00:50:56,420 --> 00:50:59,389
- What did you say?
- What? I said, will you marry me?

719
00:50:59,556 --> 00:51:02,423
- When I'm a general.
- Oh, lieutenant.

720
00:51:02,592 --> 00:51:04,457
Oh, it's easy to
become a general.

721
00:51:04,628 --> 00:51:08,587
Then that old crab... I mean, that nice
old father of yours will be proud...

722
00:51:08,765 --> 00:51:12,599
...to have me in the family. He'll
be at the station with hat in hand.

723
00:51:12,769 --> 00:51:14,828
Yes, general.

724
00:51:23,580 --> 00:51:25,480
The old owl.

725
00:51:27,217 --> 00:51:30,448
Holy smoke! It's your father.
Goodbye.

726
00:51:51,975 --> 00:51:55,308
What did you have to wake
up for, you old devil?

727
00:51:59,683 --> 00:52:02,151
Don't you wink at me.

728
00:52:04,454 --> 00:52:05,921
Take an order, corporal.

729
00:52:06,089 --> 00:52:08,523
Commanding officer,
Sixteenth Ohio Infantry.

730
00:52:08,692 --> 00:52:11,718
You're required to report
immediately the percentage of...

731
00:52:11,895 --> 00:52:17,128
...A, Methodists, B, Baptists, C,
other denominations among recruits.

732
00:52:17,300 --> 00:52:21,794
Using form AGO 117 less Section
12 in compiling the return.

733
00:52:21,972 --> 00:52:24,372
By order, et cetera, et
cetera, and initial it.

734
00:52:24,941 --> 00:52:26,966
From the colonel of
the 2nd Cavalry.

735
00:52:27,144 --> 00:52:30,341
He refuses to send back your
horse until Custer's return.

736
00:52:30,514 --> 00:52:32,277
- That's tomorrow, sir.
- Does he?

737
00:52:32,449 --> 00:52:36,647
Honor among horse thieves, I suppose. Well,
we'll see about that. Take an order.

738
00:52:36,820 --> 00:52:40,881
Lieutenant George Armstrong
Custer, 2nd Cavalry.

739
00:52:43,894 --> 00:52:46,795
Taipe, Lee gave us the slip.
Don't know where he's heading.

740
00:52:46,963 --> 00:52:49,864
Put every cavalry unit in GHQ
in reserve on the remove.

741
00:52:50,033 --> 00:52:53,093
- Get them going, Taipe.
- Yes, sir. Take an order, sergeant.

742
00:52:53,270 --> 00:52:57,138
Form AGO 21. No, use
the new form AGO 201.

743
00:52:57,307 --> 00:53:00,435
It isn't issued. Get it from supply.
Take his desk, Smith.

744
00:53:00,610 --> 00:53:02,942
What's the Michigan
Brigade doing at Hanover?

745
00:53:03,113 --> 00:53:06,344
Refitting. They lost their
commander and haven't a brigadier.

746
00:53:06,516 --> 00:53:09,417
Appoint one. The senior man
listed as Cavalry colonel.

747
00:53:09,586 --> 00:53:12,020
- I don't know who he is, sir.
- Find out later.

748
00:53:12,189 --> 00:53:14,419
- Dictate an order now.
- Yes, sir.

749
00:53:14,591 --> 00:53:16,388
Take this, corporal.

750
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:20,621
I've been instructed to inform you you've
been promoted to Brigadier General.

751
00:53:20,797 --> 00:53:25,234
You'll proceed to Hanover and assume
command of the Michigan Cavalry Brigade.

752
00:53:25,402 --> 00:53:28,735
General Scott, sir. News. Lee
has invaded Pennsylvania.

753
00:53:28,905 --> 00:53:33,069
- His patrols are near Gettysburg.
- Near Gettysburg!

754
00:53:33,243 --> 00:53:36,371
This means a reconcentration.
Come with me, gentlemen.

755
00:53:36,546 --> 00:53:38,411
- Sign this order, sir?
- Come, Taipe.

756
00:53:38,582 --> 00:53:40,209
Yes, sir.

757
00:53:47,557 --> 00:53:52,119
Gettysburg. Where the
deuce is Gettysburg?

758
00:54:04,874 --> 00:54:07,001
This is your tent.
I'll unpack your kit.

759
00:54:07,177 --> 00:54:09,509
The officers' mess is
at the end of the road.

760
00:54:09,679 --> 00:54:13,672
Excuse me, lieutenant. I represent George
Straith Limited, military tailors.

761
00:54:13,850 --> 00:54:17,251
We serve General Grant, General
Sherman, General Scott.

762
00:54:17,420 --> 00:54:20,548
- Any requirements? Greatcoat? Breeches?
- No, thanks.

763
00:54:20,724 --> 00:54:23,921
We can cut a fine tunic for a
figure like yours, lieutenant.

764
00:54:24,094 --> 00:54:28,258
There's any ideas that you have of your
own, we'd be glad to incorporate them.

765
00:54:28,431 --> 00:54:31,127
- No, thanks.
- There's a shell jacket that's admired.

766
00:54:31,301 --> 00:54:34,270
- Particularly by the ladies.
- Shut up and leave me alone.

767
00:54:34,437 --> 00:54:37,201
You're out of sorts, but if
you'd give me a chance...

768
00:54:37,374 --> 00:54:39,604
Shut up and get out!

769
00:54:41,144 --> 00:54:43,544
- Welcome back, general.
- Hello, general.

770
00:54:43,713 --> 00:54:47,706
General? I'll have you know,
gentlemen, I'm in no mood for humor.

771
00:54:47,884 --> 00:54:49,476
Good afternoon, general.

772
00:54:51,788 --> 00:54:55,918
- Orderly, I'd like a little coffee,
please. - Congratulations, general.

773
00:54:56,092 --> 00:54:57,684
That's enough of this fooling.

774
00:54:57,861 --> 00:55:01,319
- Next man will find a limit to my
patience. - For General Custer.

775
00:55:04,067 --> 00:55:07,901
- Sharp, I'll take this from anyone but
you. - Wait, we're not being funny.

776
00:55:08,071 --> 00:55:10,835
The Lord knows how or why,
but you are a general.

777
00:55:11,007 --> 00:55:12,474
- What do you mean?
- Orders.

778
00:55:12,642 --> 00:55:17,204
Here's a letter from headquarters to
Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer.

779
00:55:17,914 --> 00:55:21,372
- Is this someone's idea of a joke?
- There are no jokes in orders.

780
00:55:23,186 --> 00:55:25,711
This makes less sense to
me than it does to you.

781
00:55:25,889 --> 00:55:29,188
Must be a mistake. They don't
make generals out of shavetails.

782
00:55:29,359 --> 00:55:32,385
I'd ask for verification
if I were you.

783
00:55:32,562 --> 00:55:35,053
Well, you don't happen
to be me, Sharp.

784
00:55:35,231 --> 00:55:39,224
If there are four regiments of cavalry
waiting for a general named Custer...

785
00:55:39,402 --> 00:55:41,529
...then they've got him.

786
00:55:43,273 --> 00:55:45,036
Hey.

787
00:55:45,709 --> 00:55:49,543
Hi. Hey, tailor. Hey.
Tailor, come here.

788
00:56:04,394 --> 00:56:06,885
Yesterday there was fighting
20 miles from here.

789
00:56:07,063 --> 00:56:11,329
Our army has been driven out of Gettysburg
and occupies a ridge below town.

790
00:56:11,501 --> 00:56:15,699
The orders are to concentrate below this
hill marked Big Round Top on the map.

791
00:56:15,872 --> 00:56:18,363
Jeb Stuart's moving to
flank us from the south.

792
00:56:18,541 --> 00:56:21,669
Undoubtedly. As senior colonel,
I'll assume command...

793
00:56:21,845 --> 00:56:24,780
...if this brigadier hasn't
arrived by the time we move.

794
00:56:24,948 --> 00:56:27,974
Who this Custer is and why
he's not here, I don't know.

795
00:56:28,151 --> 00:56:30,278
Turn out the guard.
Commanding officer.

796
00:56:30,453 --> 00:56:33,718
We'll get a chance to see
what he looks like now.

797
00:56:40,063 --> 00:56:41,553
Judas priest, what's that?

798
00:56:41,731 --> 00:56:44,962
He's got more gold braid on
him than a French admiral.

799
00:56:47,570 --> 00:56:51,131
Gentlemen, we might as well reach
an understanding at first sight.

800
00:56:51,307 --> 00:56:54,071
After seeing your columns
and your transports...

801
00:56:54,244 --> 00:56:58,613
...I'm here to tell you that this brigade
is through with inefficiency as of today.

802
00:56:58,782 --> 00:57:02,616
It's going to learn the meaning of
smartness and orders are to be obeyed.

803
00:57:02,786 --> 00:57:05,118
- Do I make myself clear?
- Yes, sir.

804
00:57:05,288 --> 00:57:06,687
We're ready to move, sir.

805
00:57:06,856 --> 00:57:10,952
Brigade's ordered to concentrate on
Round Top, just south of Gettysburg.

806
00:57:11,127 --> 00:57:12,355
What's that?

807
00:57:12,529 --> 00:57:15,020
Probably enemy patrol
raiding the supply column.

808
00:57:15,198 --> 00:57:18,133
Lee's in Gettysburg, Stuart's
cavalry's in the South.

809
00:57:18,301 --> 00:57:22,328
Rejoin your units. Be prepared to move
in 10 minutes. Columns headed east.

810
00:57:22,505 --> 00:57:23,938
- East?
- What?

811
00:57:24,107 --> 00:57:26,541
- But the orders.
- To the devil with the orders.

812
00:57:26,709 --> 00:57:28,609
We'll ride to the
sound of the guns.

813
00:57:28,778 --> 00:57:30,211
Things look better now.

814
00:57:30,380 --> 00:57:33,838
With Cemetery back in our hands and
Sickles' front restored but...

815
00:57:34,017 --> 00:57:35,882
Yesterday we lost 20,000 men.

816
00:57:36,052 --> 00:57:37,952
Pickett's reinforced Longstreet.

817
00:57:38,121 --> 00:57:40,988
- Massing to attack our center.
- I'm not worried about that.

818
00:57:41,157 --> 00:57:42,681
I'm worried about Jeb Stuart.

819
00:57:42,859 --> 00:57:45,191
Why hasn't he turned the
flank at Round Top?

820
00:57:45,361 --> 00:57:47,852
He knows our cavalry's
concentrated to stop him.

821
00:57:48,031 --> 00:57:53,196
When did our cavalry ever stop Jeb Stuart?
If he turns us, the position's lost.

822
00:57:53,369 --> 00:57:56,395
Washington and
Baltimore will fall.

823
00:58:00,608 --> 00:58:02,200
Hanover?

824
00:58:02,577 --> 00:58:05,410
Stuart. Stuart's
caught at Hanover.

825
00:58:05,780 --> 00:58:07,008
It's a mistake.

826
00:58:07,315 --> 00:58:10,648
- Get verification at once.
- It has been verified, sir.

827
00:58:15,390 --> 00:58:18,882
He's on our rear. We're trapped.

828
00:58:19,060 --> 00:58:21,824
All that stands between
us and total disaster...

829
00:58:21,996 --> 00:58:24,931
...is the Michigan Brigade.
Handful of volunteers.

830
00:58:25,100 --> 00:58:26,965
But they were ordered
to Round Top.

831
00:58:27,135 --> 00:58:30,434
- It's on its way now.
- Then stop it, Taipe. Stop it.

832
00:58:30,605 --> 00:58:33,199
Tell it to hold its
ground to the last man.

833
00:58:33,374 --> 00:58:34,807
Who's the brigadier?

834
00:58:34,976 --> 00:58:37,410
- Why...
- Who is he, Taipe?

835
00:58:37,579 --> 00:58:39,046
Why...

836
00:58:41,149 --> 00:58:42,446
Corporal Smith.

837
00:58:43,084 --> 00:58:46,281
As you were. Who's the new
commander of the Michigan Cavalry?

838
00:58:46,454 --> 00:58:48,615
- General Custer, sir.
- General Custer.

839
00:58:48,890 --> 00:58:51,757
- Custer? What Custer's that?
- George Armstrong Custer.

840
00:58:51,926 --> 00:58:54,053
Here's a copy of the order.

841
00:58:54,729 --> 00:58:57,789
- What is this? How did this happen?
- Well, who is he?

842
00:58:57,966 --> 00:58:59,263
Heaven help us, sir.

843
00:58:59,434 --> 00:59:02,403
The Michigan Brigade is led
by the most irresponsible...

844
00:59:02,570 --> 00:59:05,095
...rattle-brained second
lieutenant in the Army.

845
00:59:10,411 --> 00:59:13,039
Seventh Michigan, forward.

846
00:59:17,051 --> 00:59:18,678
Trot!

847
00:59:22,590 --> 00:59:23,818
Gallop!

848
00:59:25,226 --> 00:59:27,160
Charge!

849
00:59:51,419 --> 00:59:53,478
We'll take immediate
action with Custer.

850
00:59:53,655 --> 00:59:56,453
This Custer of yours is
insubordinate, all right.

851
00:59:56,658 --> 01:00:00,424
Thank God for it. He's not
marching on Round Top.

852
01:00:00,595 --> 01:00:04,656
- He's attacking Stuart at Hanover!
- Attacking? Attacking a whole corps?

853
01:00:04,833 --> 01:00:07,700
Rather than hold his ground,
the mad fool is attacking!

854
01:00:22,851 --> 01:00:26,150
That was a gallant charge,
men, even if it failed.

855
01:00:26,387 --> 01:00:30,289
Sergeant, see that the
wounded are taken care of.

856
01:00:31,626 --> 01:00:33,685
Senior colonel presents
his compliments.

857
01:00:33,862 --> 01:00:36,922
Fifth and 6th Michigan are
formed for attack. Any orders?

858
01:00:40,034 --> 01:00:42,502
Try more weight. Fifth
and 6th attack together.

859
01:00:42,670 --> 01:00:45,798
Very good. Where will the general's
headquarters be located?

860
01:00:45,974 --> 01:00:49,068
Headquarters? In front of
the attacking regiment.

861
01:00:56,985 --> 01:00:59,613
Fifth and 6th Michigan, forward!

862
01:01:06,961 --> 01:01:08,656
Trot!

863
01:01:10,999 --> 01:01:12,933
Gallop!

864
01:01:14,402 --> 01:01:16,097
Charge!

865
01:01:40,428 --> 01:01:43,625
The order in question, being
erroneous, is hereby revoked...

866
01:01:43,865 --> 01:01:46,425
...and as of today, revert
to second lieutenant.

867
01:01:46,601 --> 01:01:48,262
Never mind that, Taipe.

868
01:01:48,436 --> 01:01:51,837
"Consecutive attacks by 7th,
6th, 5th Michigan Cavalry...

869
01:01:52,006 --> 01:01:54,201
...are repulsed by
losses near Hanover.

870
01:01:54,375 --> 01:01:58,573
- Enemy advance continues."
- Three regiments ruined by a fool.

871
01:01:58,746 --> 01:02:00,509
Three out of our last four.

872
01:02:09,557 --> 01:02:11,081
Ride, you Wolverines!

873
01:02:11,259 --> 01:02:13,750
First Michigan, charge!

874
01:02:52,633 --> 01:02:55,966
What is it? What is it?
Read it to me, man.

875
01:02:56,137 --> 01:02:59,664
"Stuart retiring in disorder after
assault by Michigan Cavalry...

876
01:02:59,841 --> 01:03:02,139
...enemy abandoning guns."

877
01:03:06,948 --> 01:03:08,575
And now, gentlemen...

878
01:03:08,783 --> 01:03:11,980
...If Meade can hold the
ridge at Gettysburg...

879
01:03:12,253 --> 01:03:15,154
...by God's grace, the
Union will be safe.

880
01:03:16,457 --> 01:03:17,754
General...

881
01:03:17,925 --> 01:03:19,654
...about this Custer matter...

882
01:03:19,827 --> 01:03:24,093
...what do you propose to do?
- Do? Do, Taipe?

883
01:03:25,466 --> 01:03:27,491
Oh, yes, Custer.

884
01:03:27,668 --> 01:03:30,262
I intend to walk
across the street...

885
01:03:30,438 --> 01:03:34,772
...and buy myself a double portion
of creamed Bermuda onions.

886
01:04:18,076 --> 01:04:19,941
- Charles, good to see you.
- Welcome, welcome

887
01:04:20,111 --> 01:04:22,545
Welcome home, general.
Welcome home.

888
01:04:22,847 --> 01:04:24,075
We're proud of you...

889
01:04:24,249 --> 01:04:27,650
...and proud to know that one of
our townsmen has won such glory.

890
01:04:27,819 --> 01:04:31,550
- You're a credit to Monroe and the Army.
- Thank you, sir.

891
01:04:31,723 --> 01:04:34,419
Now, the parade will
form on Elm Street...

892
01:04:34,592 --> 01:04:36,924
...turn into D Street,
cross the parkway...

893
01:04:37,095 --> 01:04:40,690
...and then march right up Main Street.
Kindly stay on the sidewalks.

894
01:04:40,865 --> 01:04:43,959
Those wanting to march along,
do so after the committee.

895
01:04:44,135 --> 01:04:48,231
The band will lead the parade,
followed by myself and General...

896
01:04:49,808 --> 01:04:51,332
Libby.

897
01:04:52,978 --> 01:04:55,378
- Are you forgetting yourself?
- It's all right.

898
01:04:55,547 --> 01:04:57,606
Everything's very proper.
We're engaged.

899
01:04:58,850 --> 01:05:00,545
Well, splendid. Splendid.

900
01:05:00,719 --> 01:05:02,550
- We're going to be married.
- Today.

901
01:05:02,721 --> 01:05:06,088
I brought my regimental chaplain.
General Sheridan is best man.

902
01:05:06,291 --> 01:05:08,486
- With your permission.
- My permission?

903
01:05:08,660 --> 01:05:12,152
Well, now, of course, general,
I shall be honored to give it.

904
01:05:12,330 --> 01:05:13,854
You mustn't be too impetuous.

905
01:05:14,032 --> 01:05:18,025
There's the announcement and arrangement.
If you marry today, you can't have them.

906
01:05:18,203 --> 01:05:21,798
I shall have General Custer, and
he's what I set out to get.

907
01:05:21,973 --> 01:05:24,464
Libby, this is
positively unmaidenly.

908
01:05:24,642 --> 01:05:26,803
After today, that won't matter.

909
01:05:46,765 --> 01:05:50,132
Where did Miss Libby get herself
such a fine, handsome man?

910
01:05:50,301 --> 01:05:53,668
Why, child, I found
him in a teacup.

911
01:06:16,561 --> 01:06:19,621
There is two gentlemen to see
General Custer, Miss Libby.

912
01:06:19,798 --> 01:06:21,595
They claim their name is Sharp.

913
01:06:21,766 --> 01:06:24,530
Thank you, Jane. Let Callie
attend to the callers.

914
01:06:24,702 --> 01:06:27,694
- Yes, ma'am.
- Callie, has General Custer returned?

915
01:06:27,872 --> 01:06:31,205
No, ma'am, not since he left at
his usual time this morning.

916
01:06:31,376 --> 01:06:35,039
I'll receive the callers here. Tell
them the general is expected soon.

917
01:06:35,213 --> 01:06:38,376
I'll tell them he's downtown
taking care of some business.

918
01:06:42,220 --> 01:06:46,418
I don't hold with you, Major Smith.
I don't hold with you at all, sir.

919
01:06:48,827 --> 01:06:53,855
If Lee had concentrated his artillery,
and succeeded in enfilading Round Top...

920
01:06:54,032 --> 01:06:56,466
...we would have been
licked at Gettysburg.

921
01:06:56,634 --> 01:06:59,398
- Why didn't he, general?
- Well, who knows?

922
01:06:59,571 --> 01:07:04,338
Every great soldier has a bad day,
and perhaps it was Lee's turn.

923
01:07:08,113 --> 01:07:12,311
He who drinks and runs away
lives to drink another day.

924
01:07:13,718 --> 01:07:18,212
Thank you, Joe. Step up to the bar, boys.
My pleasure. Set them up, Joe.

925
01:07:18,423 --> 01:07:23,019
Mr. Sharp, the money doesn't matter, but
what you offer is the answer to a prayer.

926
01:07:23,194 --> 01:07:27,358
I'd almost given up hope of George
finding anything suitable in civil life.

927
01:07:27,699 --> 01:07:30,259
We know of no one else
so well-qualified.

928
01:07:32,570 --> 01:07:34,435
So you're here at last.

929
01:07:34,606 --> 01:07:38,042
I'm afraid I've been boring
these gentlemen dreadfully.

930
01:07:38,610 --> 01:07:40,510
They'll get no sympathy from me.

931
01:07:40,678 --> 01:07:45,240
Madam, until this afternoon, I'd
envied General Custer only his fame.

932
01:07:45,416 --> 01:07:47,145
Oh, Mr. Sharp.

933
01:07:47,318 --> 01:07:51,812
But you'll excuse me. I have some
flowers I must cut in the garden.

934
01:07:55,793 --> 01:07:58,261
I hope you'll forgive
this intrusion, Custer.

935
01:07:58,463 --> 01:08:03,298
The North and South have forgotten their
difficulties, so I hope we can forget ours.

936
01:08:04,369 --> 01:08:07,236
May I present my father, William Sharp.
General Custer.

937
01:08:07,405 --> 01:08:08,997
- How do you do?
- How do you do?

938
01:08:09,174 --> 01:08:13,474
Do you know, sir, I was joking with the
adjutant general about you last week.

939
01:08:13,645 --> 01:08:14,873
- Taipe?
- Yes, Taipe.

940
01:08:15,046 --> 01:08:17,606
You stole his horse on
one occasion, it seems.

941
01:08:17,782 --> 01:08:19,374
That's right. A fine animal.

942
01:08:19,551 --> 01:08:21,883
- Much too good for him. Drink?
- Thank you.

943
01:08:22,053 --> 01:08:25,489
We've come from Washington
especially to see you, general.

944
01:08:25,657 --> 01:08:27,852
Indeed? Why?

945
01:08:28,026 --> 01:08:30,620
Because there's money
in fame, these days.

946
01:08:30,828 --> 01:08:35,060
We're offering you the presidency of the
Western Railroad Trading Company...

947
01:08:35,233 --> 01:08:36,860
...at a salary of $ 10,000.

948
01:08:37,035 --> 01:08:40,994
It's a corporation I organized for
developing the Dakota Territories.

949
01:08:41,172 --> 01:08:42,400
But...

950
01:08:42,574 --> 01:08:46,237
...what use could I be to a concern
of that kind? I'm a soldier.

951
01:08:46,411 --> 01:08:48,436
Well, you're a
national hero, Custer.

952
01:08:48,613 --> 01:08:53,050
Your name would make it easy for us
to get government concessions...

953
01:08:53,218 --> 01:08:55,743
...such as trading
monopolies at Army posts.

954
01:08:55,920 --> 01:08:58,855
It would go far in selling
stock to the public.

955
01:08:59,023 --> 01:09:00,820
My name?

956
01:09:01,092 --> 01:09:02,719
I see.

957
01:09:07,699 --> 01:09:08,927
What's the stock worth?

958
01:09:09,100 --> 01:09:12,331
Nothing, naturally, until it
begins to earn dividends.

959
01:09:13,371 --> 01:09:15,305
Then I'm not interested.

960
01:09:15,473 --> 01:09:16,997
My name stands for something.

961
01:09:17,175 --> 01:09:20,838
I'll not gamble its meaning on the
success or failure of any business.

962
01:09:21,012 --> 01:09:22,206
Not interested.

963
01:09:22,380 --> 01:09:26,476
General, I'm afraid you've an
inclination to be a romantic fool.

964
01:09:26,684 --> 01:09:30,381
An admirable one, no doubt,
but nonetheless a fool.

965
01:09:30,555 --> 01:09:34,457
Can a man of your distinction bear
the thought of living off his wife?

966
01:09:34,892 --> 01:09:38,726
- I know it hasn't occurred to you...
- It's occurred to me.

967
01:09:38,896 --> 01:09:42,127
We offer a chance to serve the
nation as you did in battle.

968
01:09:42,300 --> 01:09:45,701
The company will bring civilization
to a waste of territory...

969
01:09:45,870 --> 01:09:48,031
...which is now in the
hands of savages.

970
01:09:48,239 --> 01:09:50,764
- Why, it's as fine a...
- That's enough.

971
01:09:50,942 --> 01:09:56,505
I'll gamble. I'll gamble with anything. My
money, my sword, my life, if necessary.

972
01:09:56,681 --> 01:10:00,276
But there's one thing I won't gamble
with, and that's my good name.

973
01:10:00,451 --> 01:10:01,850
Good day, gentlemen.

974
01:10:03,721 --> 01:10:05,621
You're excited, general. Now...

975
01:10:05,790 --> 01:10:08,953
- It's not an offer that comes twice...
- No, once is enough.

976
01:10:09,127 --> 01:10:12,290
Quite enough. Good
day, gentlemen.

977
01:10:40,725 --> 01:10:43,353
What did the Sharps
want of you, George?

978
01:10:43,961 --> 01:10:46,862
Only my name, for a
stock promotion.

979
01:10:47,031 --> 01:10:48,555
Only your name?

980
01:10:48,733 --> 01:10:52,567
Yes, they wanted to hire
it for $ 10,000 a year.

981
01:10:56,574 --> 01:10:58,041
It's a lot of money...

982
01:10:58,209 --> 01:11:01,303
...but we've five dogs
and 11 horses now.

983
01:11:01,479 --> 01:11:03,379
What could we have done with it?

984
01:11:07,285 --> 01:11:10,743
Well, think of all the bags of
onions we could have bought.

985
01:11:11,322 --> 01:11:14,018
To keep me away from
you, I suppose.

986
01:11:14,992 --> 01:11:17,688
Aren't you happy
here, Mr. Custer?

987
01:11:25,069 --> 01:11:26,900
Mrs. Custer...

988
01:11:27,238 --> 01:11:29,138
...I've never been
so happy in my life.

989
01:11:38,449 --> 01:11:41,009
Mrs. Custer, sir.

990
01:11:44,188 --> 01:11:46,816
General Sheridan should
have warned me, ma'am.

991
01:11:46,991 --> 01:11:50,927
- I thought Uncle Phil advised you that...
- He advised me of your coming.

992
01:11:51,095 --> 01:11:55,054
He didn't warn me that I would meet
the most beautiful girl I ever saw.

993
01:11:56,534 --> 01:11:59,765
You're very kind, General Scott.
And very embarrassing.

994
01:11:59,937 --> 01:12:03,373
Upon my soul, ma'am, you make me
regret this unchivalrous age.

995
01:12:03,541 --> 01:12:07,807
If ever a lady's hand deserved to
be saluted, it is certainly yours.

996
01:12:08,646 --> 01:12:10,170
Forgive an old soldier.

997
01:12:10,348 --> 01:12:12,248
It was the custom in his youth.

998
01:12:12,450 --> 01:12:15,317
Did Uncle Phil tell you why
I came, General Scott?

999
01:12:15,486 --> 01:12:18,717
No, he said it was a matter for
my decision, in any event.

1000
01:12:18,956 --> 01:12:21,516
- It's about my husband.
- Of course, Custer.

1001
01:12:21,692 --> 01:12:23,853
I should have asked,
how is the lucky dog?

1002
01:12:24,028 --> 01:12:25,586
Not so lucky, I'm afraid.

1003
01:12:26,631 --> 01:12:30,089
Well, that's bad. Is
he in ill health?

1004
01:12:30,268 --> 01:12:32,498
Not exactly, General Scott.

1005
01:12:32,670 --> 01:12:35,503
But inactivity is doing
something to him.

1006
01:12:35,673 --> 01:12:39,973
Undermining him. George will never
be himself out of the Army.

1007
01:12:40,144 --> 01:12:41,805
He's not happy.

1008
01:12:42,380 --> 01:12:44,439
Even though he pretends to be.

1009
01:12:44,615 --> 01:12:48,312
General Scott, can't you put
him back into active service?

1010
01:12:48,486 --> 01:12:54,118
My dear, I know what eats a man who has
endured the tension of war for years.

1011
01:12:54,292 --> 01:12:56,886
It's like a drug. A man
can't live without it.

1012
01:12:57,261 --> 01:13:00,424
Please, General Scott. Please.

1013
01:13:00,798 --> 01:13:04,598
Mrs. Custer, I'm bound by the seniority
rule in making appointments.

1014
01:13:04,769 --> 01:13:06,566
The rule of the Army.

1015
01:13:06,871 --> 01:13:10,466
Come, come, my child. You're
unduly distressed about George.

1016
01:13:10,641 --> 01:13:15,374
- Time is a healer. Time will cure him.
- No, no. It will destroy him.

1017
01:13:19,517 --> 01:13:21,849
There's something you
haven't told me.

1018
01:13:22,019 --> 01:13:23,611
Isn't there?

1019
01:13:24,288 --> 01:13:29,749
It's very difficult for me to tell
you this, but I'm afraid. So afraid.

1020
01:13:29,927 --> 01:13:31,155
He's been drinking.

1021
01:13:31,329 --> 01:13:34,594
So much. Much more
than he knows.

1022
01:13:38,369 --> 01:13:41,668
- I see. - I can't bear to
think of him in degradation.

1023
01:13:41,839 --> 01:13:45,400
General Scott, you've got to
do something to save him.

1024
01:13:45,576 --> 01:13:49,012
We owe him so much. All of us.

1025
01:13:49,180 --> 01:13:52,946
There, there, my dear.
You're quite right.

1026
01:13:54,585 --> 01:13:56,746
We do owe him a lot.

1027
01:14:04,595 --> 01:14:07,063
Yes, sir. That is
a handsome piece.

1028
01:14:07,231 --> 01:14:10,064
Uncle Phil was sending the
watch when I popped in.

1029
01:14:10,234 --> 01:14:12,099
The brigade asked
him to choose it.

1030
01:14:13,905 --> 01:14:15,998
Those are great boys.
Great days.

1031
01:14:16,207 --> 01:14:18,539
And the little miniature
of you is beautiful.

1032
01:14:18,743 --> 01:14:22,008
The chain belonged to Father. I
always wanted you to have it.

1033
01:14:22,179 --> 01:14:23,646
It's beautiful.

1034
01:14:24,382 --> 01:14:27,215
- Here's your morning mail, general.
- Thank you.

1035
01:14:27,385 --> 01:14:29,250
That must have been a dull trip.

1036
01:14:29,420 --> 01:14:35,017
It wasn't so dull. I did a lot of shopping,
and it was wonderful to see Uncle Phil.

1037
01:14:35,192 --> 01:14:36,921
I missed you.

1038
01:14:48,205 --> 01:14:51,333
How do you like your eggs this
morning, boiled or fried?

1039
01:14:51,509 --> 01:14:54,376
- What?
- I said, how do you like your eggs?

1040
01:14:54,545 --> 01:14:56,240
Eggs? Sure.

1041
01:14:56,914 --> 01:14:58,575
Eggs. Boiled and fried.

1042
01:14:58,749 --> 01:15:01,047
Scrambled, poached and
rubbed in your hair.

1043
01:15:01,218 --> 01:15:04,210
- The man's plumb crazy.
- Libby. Libby, look.

1044
01:15:04,388 --> 01:15:05,821
I'm on the active list.

1045
01:15:05,990 --> 01:15:09,255
Lieutenant colonel, raising a
regiment of cavalry at Fort Lincoln.

1046
01:15:09,427 --> 01:15:12,225
They passed up 50 senior
officers to give me the job.

1047
01:15:12,396 --> 01:15:14,296
Oh, darling, how wonderful.

1048
01:15:14,465 --> 01:15:17,832
I'm so glad for you. But
where is Fort Lincoln?

1049
01:15:18,002 --> 01:15:22,632
In the Dakota Territory, I think. Wait.
I'll get the map. Sit down. Sit down.

1050
01:15:25,343 --> 01:15:28,870
Callie. General Custer
and I are going away.

1051
01:15:29,647 --> 01:15:32,275
You must pack the things I
mentioned this morning.

1052
01:15:32,450 --> 01:15:36,716
But, Miss Libby, what about all your
lovely things? Your china, your silver...

1053
01:15:36,887 --> 01:15:38,479
...and all your pretty clothes?

1054
01:15:38,656 --> 01:15:40,886
Well, I'll have to
leave those behind.

1055
01:15:41,058 --> 01:15:42,582
Callie...

1056
01:15:42,760 --> 01:15:44,853
...I'll have to leave you too.

1057
01:15:45,262 --> 01:15:49,596
Miss Libby, ain't y'all gonna have nobody
to fix for you while you're up there?

1058
01:15:49,767 --> 01:15:51,792
I'll get along, Callie.

1059
01:15:51,969 --> 01:15:53,368
It's ridiculous.

1060
01:15:53,537 --> 01:15:55,664
Giving up your home
and your life.

1061
01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:58,434
I hope the general appreciates
what you're doing.

1062
01:15:58,609 --> 01:16:03,012
Fort Lincoln. Fort Lincoln.
Here it is, see?

1063
01:16:04,415 --> 01:16:07,043
You go by rail to Bismarck...

1064
01:16:07,284 --> 01:16:10,048
...and from then on,
by wagon trail.

1065
01:16:37,381 --> 01:16:40,441
Move over, before I cut the
rest of your tail off.

1066
01:16:40,618 --> 01:16:44,145
- I beg your pardon?
- I said, move over, you dirty Ethiopian...

1067
01:16:44,321 --> 01:16:46,812
...son of a blue-bellied Mohawk!

1068
01:16:46,991 --> 01:16:48,720
You mean the horse.

1069
01:17:17,521 --> 01:17:22,254
Stop that, you ornery, owl-faced
floozy, or I'll spit in your ear.

1070
01:17:23,194 --> 01:17:24,422
You made it.

1071
01:17:24,595 --> 01:17:30,431
Shucks, that ain't nothing. I can spit
in a prairie dog's eye at 50 feet.

1072
01:17:30,668 --> 01:17:36,470
Ain't nobody in these parts can beat
California Joe when it comes to spitting.

1073
01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:39,131
And who's California Joe?

1074
01:17:39,310 --> 01:17:41,540
Who...?

1075
01:17:41,712 --> 01:17:44,374
- That's me.
- Oh, I see.

1076
01:17:44,548 --> 01:17:46,038
You come from California.

1077
01:17:46,217 --> 01:17:48,549
No, ma'am. No.

1078
01:17:48,719 --> 01:17:51,153
Then why do they call
you California Joe?

1079
01:17:51,322 --> 01:17:54,155
Why, I guess because I...

1080
01:17:54,325 --> 01:17:58,022
Because I've been aiming
there for 27 years...

1081
01:17:58,195 --> 01:18:03,098
...and it looks like I'll be aiming
there for 27 more years, with these...

1082
01:18:03,267 --> 01:18:05,599
...Indians on the
warpath here again.

1083
01:18:05,770 --> 01:18:07,670
Are we likely to see any today?

1084
01:18:07,838 --> 01:18:10,333
No more likely than
you are to see them

1085
01:18:10,359 --> 01:18:12,698
soldiers in their fancy
pants from the fort.

1086
01:18:15,579 --> 01:18:18,377
How is old California? Taught
you how to chew tobacco?

1087
01:18:18,582 --> 01:18:20,743
No, he's been teaching
me about Indians.

1088
01:18:20,918 --> 01:18:23,910
Let me tell you, he has no
respect for soldiers, sir.

1089
01:18:24,088 --> 01:18:25,988
He hasn't? What's
wrong with him?

1090
01:18:26,157 --> 01:18:28,853
Everything they don't
know is about Indians.

1091
01:18:29,026 --> 01:18:33,087
Indians is too ignorant to fight right.
They fight wrong every time.

1092
01:18:33,264 --> 01:18:35,630
That's why the soldiers
always get licked.

1093
01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:38,894
To lick an Indian, you gotta
fight them like an Indian.

1094
01:18:39,069 --> 01:18:41,162
Might be something to that.

1095
01:18:41,338 --> 01:18:42,828
How would you like a job?

1096
01:18:43,941 --> 01:18:46,466
What, me?

1097
01:18:46,644 --> 01:18:49,204
Be a soldier, and wear
them fancy pants...

1098
01:18:49,380 --> 01:18:53,817
...and wash my ears with store
soap and sleep in a bed?

1099
01:18:54,552 --> 01:18:56,679
No, sir!

1100
01:18:56,854 --> 01:18:59,254
My business is shooting,
not saluting.

1101
01:18:59,423 --> 01:19:03,689
I can't salute, anyway. I got
rheumatism in my saluting arm. I...

1102
01:19:05,396 --> 01:19:08,024
Well! I'm a dirty... Look!

1103
01:19:08,365 --> 01:19:11,528
- What's wrong? What do you see?
- Skin your eyeballs, son.

1104
01:19:11,702 --> 01:19:14,364
There's a redskin over
that rock yonder.

1105
01:19:14,538 --> 01:19:16,665
- Indians?
- One, maybe two.

1106
01:19:16,841 --> 01:19:18,502
On your belly, ma'am.

1107
01:19:25,382 --> 01:19:26,440
After them, men.

1108
01:19:34,058 --> 01:19:35,855
George. George.

1109
01:19:36,026 --> 01:19:37,721
Come on. Get out of here.

1110
01:20:07,591 --> 01:20:11,789
Signal your people. Drive back my horses,
or I'll hang you at the fort gate.

1111
01:20:13,264 --> 01:20:14,925
You give word?

1112
01:20:15,099 --> 01:20:17,431
- No kill with rope?
- I give word.

1113
01:20:17,601 --> 01:20:19,159
Now signal.

1114
01:20:19,503 --> 01:20:21,130
I speak.

1115
01:20:24,742 --> 01:20:29,202
Why you dirty, moth-eaten,
cockeyed son of a rat!

1116
01:20:29,380 --> 01:20:31,780
If it ain't old Crazy Horse...

1117
01:20:31,949 --> 01:20:33,780
...chief of the Sioux.

1118
01:20:34,318 --> 01:20:38,948
What a shivaree there's gonna be when they
drag you to Fort Lincoln on that rope.

1119
01:20:39,123 --> 01:20:41,717
We'll take him there. He
can cool off for 60 days.

1120
01:20:41,892 --> 01:20:43,223
Maybe he'll be good.

1121
01:20:43,394 --> 01:20:45,294
Tie him up. Put
him in the wagon.

1122
01:20:45,863 --> 01:20:47,990
We better vamoose out
of here quick...

1123
01:20:48,165 --> 01:20:50,326
...before the rest
come to get the chief.

1124
01:20:50,501 --> 01:20:52,765
I think you're right, Joe.

1125
01:21:19,596 --> 01:21:21,826
California, California.

1126
01:21:29,206 --> 01:21:30,605
What did she say?

1127
01:21:30,774 --> 01:21:33,675
She wants to know if she can
name the papoose after me.

1128
01:21:33,844 --> 01:21:36,108
How charming.

1129
01:21:41,719 --> 01:21:44,244
Turn out the guard. Get
rid of that cigar.

1130
01:21:45,489 --> 01:21:46,717
Guard, turn out.

1131
01:21:58,936 --> 01:22:00,198
Look at that guard.

1132
01:22:00,371 --> 01:22:03,431
Filthy as mountain goats. They
don't even know how to stand.

1133
01:22:03,607 --> 01:22:05,734
The regiment's just
been mustered in.

1134
01:22:05,909 --> 01:22:08,400
- We haven't a colonel yet.
- You've got one now.

1135
01:22:08,579 --> 01:22:12,071
Why aren't there any patrols? Why
are you all hiding in this fort?

1136
01:22:12,249 --> 01:22:16,049
This fort isn't here to protect the Army.
The Army should protect the trail.

1137
01:22:16,220 --> 01:22:18,688
Crazy Horse's Sioux are raiding.
We've orders to wait.

1138
01:22:18,856 --> 01:22:20,585
You have, have you?

1139
01:22:20,758 --> 01:22:22,316
Bring out that Indian.

1140
01:22:22,493 --> 01:22:25,087
I'd like you to see,
Mr. Whatever-Your-Name-Is...

1141
01:22:25,262 --> 01:22:28,561
...what's been holding up a
whole regiment of U.S. Cavalry.

1142
01:22:29,233 --> 01:22:31,497
- Crazy Horse.
- Yeah, string him up.

1143
01:22:34,738 --> 01:22:37,605
Back, back. All of you, back.

1144
01:22:37,775 --> 01:22:40,573
Or I'll turn him loose
and let him chase you.

1145
01:22:40,744 --> 01:22:44,840
You give word, Long Hair.
Shoot now. No rope.

1146
01:22:45,015 --> 01:22:48,451
I give word, Crazy Horse.
I keep my word.

1147
01:22:48,619 --> 01:22:51,110
Tell off a detail. Take
him to the guardhouse.

1148
01:22:51,288 --> 01:22:53,654
Yes, sir. You four men,
take the prisoner.

1149
01:22:53,824 --> 01:22:56,156
- And see that he's well treated.
- Yes, sir.

1150
01:22:56,326 --> 01:22:59,227
You'll find headquarters
straight ahead, sir.

1151
01:23:00,597 --> 01:23:02,565
Out of the way.

1152
01:23:04,802 --> 01:23:07,270
California, why are
Indians in the fort?

1153
01:23:07,438 --> 01:23:10,430
They're trading for rifles.

1154
01:23:10,607 --> 01:23:12,507
Rifles?

1155
01:23:13,277 --> 01:23:14,869
Libby.

1156
01:23:15,112 --> 01:23:16,739
You go on. I'll return shortly.

1157
01:23:16,914 --> 01:23:19,747
California, take the
wagons on to my quarters.

1158
01:23:20,050 --> 01:23:23,838
Sure. Say, son, about
that joining the Army.

1159
01:23:23,864 --> 01:23:26,480
I calculate I could
change my mind...

1160
01:23:26,890 --> 01:23:31,156
...if I didn't have to wear them
fancy pants. And no saluting.

1161
01:23:31,328 --> 01:23:33,626
Up there, hoghead. Come on!

1162
01:24:04,595 --> 01:24:07,155
Where's the owner?
I want to see him.

1163
01:24:07,331 --> 01:24:08,730
Boss.

1164
01:24:11,702 --> 01:24:14,830
- Well, look who's here.
- You.

1165
01:24:15,005 --> 01:24:16,939
- Are you in charge here?
- Yep.

1166
01:24:17,107 --> 01:24:19,940
General manager of all the
company's trading stores.

1167
01:24:20,110 --> 01:24:23,511
- You turned down a good thing, Custer.
- Colonel Custer to you.

1168
01:24:23,680 --> 01:24:26,376
I'm in command here, and
don't you ever forget it.

1169
01:24:26,550 --> 01:24:30,179
- Tell me what you're selling rifles for.
- For $ 75 apiece.

1170
01:24:30,354 --> 01:24:32,720
Civil War surplus bought
from the government.

1171
01:24:32,890 --> 01:24:36,121
You're selling them to Indians?
Why are they in the fort?

1172
01:24:36,293 --> 01:24:38,488
They're friendlies.

1173
01:24:38,662 --> 01:24:39,890
Friendlies.

1174
01:24:40,063 --> 01:24:42,031
I certainly hope
you're right, Sharp.

1175
01:24:42,199 --> 01:24:46,329
These Winchesters will outrange any of
our cavalry rifles, and you know it.

1176
01:25:04,454 --> 01:25:06,945
Attention. Commanding officer.

1177
01:25:08,425 --> 01:25:10,985
Sergeant, there's two
men brawling outside.

1178
01:25:11,161 --> 01:25:14,961
Have them arrested for drunkenness.
They're supposed to be cavalrymen.

1179
01:25:15,132 --> 01:25:17,259
- Yes, sir.
- At ease, men.

1180
01:25:20,470 --> 01:25:23,405
Well, colonel, I hope
you like your recruits.

1181
01:25:25,242 --> 01:25:30,043
They're about the worst lot of rustlers,
gunmen and outcasts that I've ever seen.

1182
01:25:30,214 --> 01:25:31,841
The scum of the earth.

1183
01:25:32,015 --> 01:25:34,449
It seems to be your
business to worsen them.

1184
01:25:34,618 --> 01:25:37,280
Now, look, Sharp. I
want this bar closed.

1185
01:25:37,955 --> 01:25:39,445
I want it closed now.

1186
01:25:39,623 --> 01:25:42,786
It is run under a government franchise.
You can't close it.

1187
01:25:42,960 --> 01:25:45,622
- Sergeant.
- Yes, sir?

1188
01:25:45,796 --> 01:25:47,559
Turn out a squad of armed men.

1189
01:25:47,731 --> 01:25:49,426
Close this place up.

1190
01:25:52,269 --> 01:25:53,736
Men...

1191
01:25:53,904 --> 01:25:55,838
...this bar is a
lawful business.

1192
01:25:56,006 --> 01:25:58,338
The company's got one
in every Army post.

1193
01:25:58,508 --> 01:26:00,976
Now, you know your rights, boys.

1194
01:26:01,178 --> 01:26:04,272
Nobody can tell you how
to spend your pay, right?

1195
01:26:04,514 --> 01:26:06,106
Wait a minute, men.

1196
01:26:06,283 --> 01:26:07,773
Wait a minute.

1197
01:26:09,286 --> 01:26:12,949
I have to admit that what Mr. Sharp
says is perfectly correct.

1198
01:26:13,257 --> 01:26:15,851
I've no legal reason
to close this bar.

1199
01:26:16,026 --> 01:26:17,391
None whatsoever.

1200
01:26:17,561 --> 01:26:18,926
And I won't...

1201
01:26:19,096 --> 01:26:22,156
...providing Mr. Sharp
doesn't mind being taken...

1202
01:26:22,332 --> 01:26:25,301
...and slung through the
mirror every time it's open...

1203
01:26:26,637 --> 01:26:29,299
...commencing one
minute from now.

1204
01:26:44,788 --> 01:26:46,016
Close it up.

1205
01:26:46,356 --> 01:26:48,551
Now, listen, men...

1206
01:26:48,725 --> 01:26:50,818
...I'm not doing this
to be a bluenose.

1207
01:26:50,994 --> 01:26:53,462
I know it's tough, not
being able to drink.

1208
01:26:53,630 --> 01:26:55,530
It's tough on me too...

1209
01:26:55,699 --> 01:26:57,530
...maybe it's tougher.

1210
01:26:57,701 --> 01:26:59,498
But when I break
down and drink...

1211
01:26:59,670 --> 01:27:02,230
...is when this bar is
going to open again.

1212
01:27:02,406 --> 01:27:06,240
I don't ask any man to stick to
something I can't stick to myself...

1213
01:27:06,410 --> 01:27:09,311
...and that's the way it
will be in this regiment.

1214
01:27:17,754 --> 01:27:19,984
Gun no work. You fix.

1215
01:27:23,727 --> 01:27:25,888
Safety catch. See?

1216
01:27:26,063 --> 01:27:27,428
Here.

1217
01:28:06,870 --> 01:28:08,201
What did I tell you?

1218
01:28:08,372 --> 01:28:11,341
Them dirty, lying, flea-bitten
friendlies let him go.

1219
01:28:11,508 --> 01:28:15,740
Friendlies? Any Indian with $
75 is a friendly to Sharp.

1220
01:28:16,079 --> 01:28:17,307
Sergeant.

1221
01:28:17,481 --> 01:28:21,178
Put a stop to that rifle trading.
I want every Indian put outside.

1222
01:28:21,351 --> 01:28:23,751
- Very well.
- Have the trumpeter sound the call.

1223
01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:25,387
Yes, sir.

1224
01:28:26,523 --> 01:28:27,751
You know, Joe...

1225
01:28:27,924 --> 01:28:30,552
...in a way, I don't mind
that Indian getting off.

1226
01:28:30,727 --> 01:28:34,254
He's the only cavalryman I've seen around.
But we'll put a stop to that.

1227
01:28:36,733 --> 01:28:41,432
We're responsible for the protection
of 100,000 square miles of territory.

1228
01:28:41,605 --> 01:28:45,632
And against us are ranged thousands
of the finest light cavalry on earth.

1229
01:28:45,809 --> 01:28:47,902
I found that out this morning.

1230
01:28:48,078 --> 01:28:49,841
It's a big job, gentlemen.

1231
01:28:50,013 --> 01:28:52,106
And it's gonna need
a fine regiment.

1232
01:28:52,282 --> 01:28:56,412
Our job is to make this the finest
regiment that the United States ever saw.

1233
01:28:56,620 --> 01:29:03,025
I needn't tell most of you that a regiment
is more than just 600 disciplined soldiers.

1234
01:29:03,193 --> 01:29:04,854
Men die...

1235
01:29:05,162 --> 01:29:06,857
...but a regiment lives on.

1236
01:29:07,030 --> 01:29:10,557
Because a regiment has an
immortal soul of its own.

1237
01:29:10,734 --> 01:29:13,635
Well, the way to begin
is to find it...

1238
01:29:13,804 --> 01:29:17,433
...to find something that
belongs to us alone.

1239
01:29:17,607 --> 01:29:21,668
Something to give us that pride in
ourselves, that will make men endure...

1240
01:29:21,845 --> 01:29:23,745
...and if necessary, die...

1241
01:29:23,914 --> 01:29:25,245
...with their boots on.

1242
01:29:25,582 --> 01:29:27,049
As for the rest, it's easy.

1243
01:29:27,217 --> 01:29:28,980
Since it's only hard work...

1244
01:29:29,152 --> 01:29:32,451
...hard riding and
hard fighting.

1245
01:29:32,889 --> 01:29:34,948
Thank you. I know I
can count on you.

1246
01:29:35,692 --> 01:29:37,489
- Major Meyers, sir.
- Pleasure.

1247
01:29:37,661 --> 01:29:39,253
- Mr. Cooper.
- Cooper.

1248
01:29:39,429 --> 01:29:40,657
Captain Elliot, sir.

1249
01:29:40,831 --> 01:29:43,163
- Captain Thompson, sir.
- Thompson.

1250
01:29:43,333 --> 01:29:44,857
Butler, sir.

1251
01:29:45,035 --> 01:29:47,697
Butler."Queen's Own" Butler.

1252
01:29:47,871 --> 01:29:50,567
- How did you get here?
- Become quite a bally Yankee.

1253
01:29:50,740 --> 01:29:54,301
Rode behind you at Hanover and
fancied I'd see some sport out West.

1254
01:29:54,678 --> 01:29:56,543
Well, I hope you do.

1255
01:29:56,713 --> 01:30:00,205
Do you know that you've haunted me
ever since I met you at Monroe?

1256
01:30:00,383 --> 01:30:03,910
- Haunted, sir?
- Yes. I've cursed you regularly.

1257
01:30:04,087 --> 01:30:07,056
Every time I tried to think of that song.
What was it?

1258
01:30:07,224 --> 01:30:08,748
Oh, "Garryowen"?

1259
01:30:08,925 --> 01:30:10,950
"Garryowen." Come
play it for us.

1260
01:30:11,127 --> 01:30:13,857
Excuse me, gentlemen. This
is an important song.

1261
01:32:45,882 --> 01:32:49,181
What are the blighters doing,
playing ring-around-the-rosey?

1262
01:32:49,352 --> 01:32:52,412
The dirty, moth-eaten...

1263
01:32:52,589 --> 01:32:54,682
It's a signal!

1264
01:32:57,694 --> 01:33:01,630
They're whupped! The dirty
buzzard eggs, they're whupped!

1265
01:33:01,798 --> 01:33:05,256
He wants a peace
powwow with Long Hair.

1266
01:33:14,210 --> 01:33:15,734
Long Hair.

1267
01:33:15,912 --> 01:33:17,379
Crazy Horse.

1268
01:33:17,547 --> 01:33:20,778
Crazy Horse, war chief
Sioux, speak with Long Hair.

1269
01:33:20,950 --> 01:33:22,713
War chief, great white father.

1270
01:33:22,886 --> 01:33:26,754
- I listen to my brother.
- My people want make peace.

1271
01:33:26,923 --> 01:33:29,289
They've lost many braves,
are tired of war.

1272
01:33:29,459 --> 01:33:31,450
They will give up
the plains forever.

1273
01:33:31,628 --> 01:33:34,426
They will give up their lodges
by the running streams.

1274
01:33:34,597 --> 01:33:37,930
They will give up their hunting
grounds where the buffalo graze.

1275
01:33:38,101 --> 01:33:39,762
They will give all up...

1276
01:33:39,936 --> 01:33:41,494
...but one place.

1277
01:33:41,671 --> 01:33:43,161
Speak. What is this place?

1278
01:33:43,339 --> 01:33:46,672
They will not give up
the Black Hills...

1279
01:33:46,843 --> 01:33:49,641
...for there, the spirits
of our fathers dwell...

1280
01:33:49,813 --> 01:33:52,941
...and there the gods
have made their tepees.

1281
01:33:53,116 --> 01:33:56,677
But all else that is my
people we give up...

1282
01:33:56,853 --> 01:33:58,445
...but Black Hills.

1283
01:33:58,621 --> 01:34:01,852
I will bear my brother's words
to the great white father.

1284
01:34:02,025 --> 01:34:04,892
Let Long Hair return with
word of great white father...

1285
01:34:05,061 --> 01:34:08,258
...that no white man will
set foot on sacred soil...

1286
01:34:08,431 --> 01:34:12,697
...and Crazy Horse and his brothers
will smoke peace pipe forever.

1287
01:34:13,169 --> 01:34:17,833
If the great white father gives
word to my brother's people...

1288
01:34:18,007 --> 01:34:21,340
...then Long Hair and his long
knives will defend Black Hills...

1289
01:34:21,511 --> 01:34:25,447
...against all white men
who seek to profane them.

1290
01:34:25,615 --> 01:34:27,310
That is the word of Long Hair.

1291
01:34:27,484 --> 01:34:31,250
Long Hair's word good one.

1292
01:34:31,421 --> 01:34:34,948
But the word of the great
white father is broken word.

1293
01:34:35,125 --> 01:34:36,854
Hear me now, Long Hair.

1294
01:34:37,026 --> 01:34:39,324
If this word broken now...

1295
01:34:39,496 --> 01:34:43,330
...not only Sioux, but the
Cheyenne, the Oglala...

1296
01:34:43,500 --> 01:34:46,560
...the Miniconjou, the
Blackfeet, the Sans Arcs...

1297
01:34:46,736 --> 01:34:50,365
...and every living tribe between
mountains and great waters...

1298
01:34:50,540 --> 01:34:53,031
...will gather in
one last battle.

1299
01:34:53,209 --> 01:34:55,370
It will be the end
of themselves...

1300
01:34:55,545 --> 01:34:59,140
...their gods, the spirits
of their fathers...

1301
01:34:59,315 --> 01:35:01,909
...and of their enemies.

1302
01:35:04,854 --> 01:35:06,583
Crazy Horse spoke.

1303
01:35:31,014 --> 01:35:34,575
We're here because the company's
facing bankruptcy on account of...

1304
01:35:34,751 --> 01:35:38,209
...the idiotic treaty with the Sioux.
- You don't have to tell me.

1305
01:35:38,388 --> 01:35:41,448
Last year I outfitted a handful
of settlers from 20 stores.

1306
01:35:41,624 --> 01:35:45,185
There'll be no settlers till the
railroad's pushed on. The only route...

1307
01:35:45,361 --> 01:35:48,228
...is through the Black Hills,
the gateway to the West.

1308
01:35:48,398 --> 01:35:52,129
A few thousand savages have stopped
the march of American civilization.

1309
01:35:52,302 --> 01:35:54,600
Why can't you do
something at Washington?

1310
01:35:54,771 --> 01:35:58,673
That was why I brought Taipe to
this job of special commissioner.

1311
01:35:58,842 --> 01:36:00,366
What is the job?

1312
01:36:00,543 --> 01:36:04,775
It's to coordinate the civil and military
administration of Indian territories.

1313
01:36:04,948 --> 01:36:07,349
While he's on the
ground, we can consider

1314
01:36:07,375 --> 01:36:09,774
local means of unlocking
the Black Hills gate.

1315
01:36:09,919 --> 01:36:11,978
Well, you'll find none here.

1316
01:36:12,155 --> 01:36:15,386
The 7th Cavalry has every pass
and river completely covered.

1317
01:36:15,558 --> 01:36:18,959
It's impossible to sneak an outfit through.
I have to know.

1318
01:36:19,128 --> 01:36:22,097
No doubt you do, but you're
talking about single outfits.

1319
01:36:22,265 --> 01:36:26,292
- Suppose there were thousands.
- Thousands? What would bring thousands...

1320
01:36:26,469 --> 01:36:27,731
...of outfits to Dakota?

1321
01:36:28,171 --> 01:36:30,537
- Gold.
- Gold?

1322
01:36:30,707 --> 01:36:33,267
Well, there's no gold
in the Black Hills.

1323
01:36:33,443 --> 01:36:36,571
Who can say what's to be found
in the Black Hills, huh?

1324
01:36:40,049 --> 01:36:44,349
Say, it'd bring them in in swarms, all
right. Start a second California gold rush.

1325
01:36:44,520 --> 01:36:46,954
But what about the Sioux?

1326
01:36:47,223 --> 01:36:50,454
That's where the commissioner comes in.
Treaty or no treaty...

1327
01:36:50,627 --> 01:36:53,653
...we cannot allow thousands
of Americans to be massacred.

1328
01:36:53,830 --> 01:36:56,321
The forces of General Crook
and General Terry...

1329
01:36:56,499 --> 01:36:58,763
...will move between
them and the Sioux.

1330
01:36:59,736 --> 01:37:03,297
Well, Ned, do you see any
practical objection?

1331
01:37:03,473 --> 01:37:06,101
- Only Custer.
- What do you mean?

1332
01:37:06,276 --> 01:37:08,972
- What can he do?
- You don't know Custer.

1333
01:37:09,145 --> 01:37:11,943
You get him mad, and there
isn't anything he won't do.

1334
01:37:12,115 --> 01:37:14,515
There isn't anything
his regiment won't do.

1335
01:37:14,684 --> 01:37:18,347
They could blockade Bismarck,
blow up the railroad bridges.

1336
01:37:18,521 --> 01:37:22,013
Then we'll get rid of Colonel Custer
as a first measure, eh, Taipe?

1337
01:37:22,191 --> 01:37:23,522
I'm all for that.

1338
01:37:23,693 --> 01:37:28,153
But I shouldn't advise doing
it through official channels.

1339
01:37:28,932 --> 01:37:33,892
I think I know how to get rid of Colonel
Custer to everybody's satisfaction.

1340
01:37:34,971 --> 01:37:38,372
- Turn out the guard! Commanding officer!
- Fall in!

1341
01:37:45,548 --> 01:37:48,676
Present arms!

1342
01:37:58,227 --> 01:38:01,025
Order arms!

1343
01:38:05,201 --> 01:38:08,864
- Hello, Roberts. How's your wife?
- Better, sir, thanks to Mrs. Custer.

1344
01:38:09,038 --> 01:38:10,938
Good, good. Now,
look, tomorrow...

1345
01:38:11,107 --> 01:38:13,716
...shine the squadron
up, bright and snappy.

1346
01:38:13,742 --> 01:38:15,626
I'm reviewing it for
the commissioner.

1347
01:38:15,778 --> 01:38:17,541
Without officers? Right, sir.

1348
01:38:23,586 --> 01:38:27,420
Stand over there. Let me look at you.
My word, you're lovelier than ever.

1349
01:38:29,392 --> 01:38:31,383
George, put me down.
We've got company.

1350
01:38:31,561 --> 01:38:33,995
- What?
- Yes. I've got a surprise for you.

1351
01:38:34,163 --> 01:38:35,858
A surprise?

1352
01:38:45,575 --> 01:38:48,339
Mrs. Taipe, may I present
my husband, General Custer.

1353
01:38:48,511 --> 01:38:50,911
- A pleasure.
- Mrs. Sharp, General Custer.

1354
01:38:51,080 --> 01:38:52,308
- How do you do?
- Madam.

1355
01:38:52,482 --> 01:38:54,712
And here are some old
friends of yours.

1356
01:38:54,884 --> 01:38:56,408
Well.

1357
01:38:57,754 --> 01:38:59,722
- What's this?
- Welcome home, colonel.

1358
01:38:59,889 --> 01:39:01,413
A little surprise for you.

1359
01:39:01,591 --> 01:39:04,788
Yes, this is a surprise. Haven't
seen you since you retired.

1360
01:39:04,961 --> 01:39:08,158
After the war, I found Army life
a trifle monotonous, Custer.

1361
01:39:08,331 --> 01:39:11,425
He's here as a special
commissioner, you know.

1362
01:39:11,601 --> 01:39:15,731
I should have paid my respects to you
as a representative of the government.

1363
01:39:15,905 --> 01:39:19,636
That's the regulation. But there's
no need to stand on ceremony here.

1364
01:39:19,809 --> 01:39:22,937
I congratulate you on the reputation
you've made for your regiment.

1365
01:39:23,146 --> 01:39:25,137
- Thank you.
- Let's drink a toast to it.

1366
01:39:25,314 --> 01:39:27,077
- Toast to the 7th Cavalry.
- Right.

1367
01:39:30,453 --> 01:39:33,047
You're not gonna drink
this toast in water.

1368
01:39:33,689 --> 01:39:35,987
Yes, this is the drink
of the 7th Cavalry.

1369
01:39:36,159 --> 01:39:39,026
Well, to the sober 7th Cavalry.

1370
01:39:40,029 --> 01:39:42,998
I'm sorry you won't see the
whole regiment on parade.

1371
01:39:43,166 --> 01:39:46,897
Most of it's in the Black Hills. But
I can promise you that tomorrow...

1372
01:39:47,070 --> 01:39:52,303
...you'll take the salute from one of the
finest squadrons of cavalry ever in review.

1373
01:39:52,475 --> 01:39:55,342
There'll be no officers on parade?
Very irregular, sir.

1374
01:39:55,511 --> 01:39:59,174
That's because I want you to see the
men who fought 36 engagements...

1375
01:39:59,348 --> 01:40:02,374
...who cleared and pacified
this frontier single-handed...

1376
01:40:02,552 --> 01:40:06,852
...who sweated and starved day
after day against impossible odds.

1377
01:40:07,023 --> 01:40:10,481
- There's no denying their record.
- It was an idea that made them.

1378
01:40:10,660 --> 01:40:12,992
An idea and a song.

1379
01:40:13,162 --> 01:40:16,825
You should have seen them the day
they were mustered in. Derelicts...

1380
01:40:16,999 --> 01:40:20,196
...criminals who joined because
they couldn't make a living.

1381
01:40:20,369 --> 01:40:22,303
But wait till you see them now.

1382
01:40:22,472 --> 01:40:27,239
Wait till you see what discipline, devotion
to duty and human understanding can do.

1383
01:40:27,410 --> 01:40:31,244
You'll see men who aren't afraid to
look death in the face with pride.

1384
01:40:31,414 --> 01:40:33,970
Not for any measly $
13 a month, but just

1385
01:40:33,996 --> 01:40:36,342
because they've got pride
in their regiment.

1386
01:40:36,486 --> 01:40:38,920
Go take the salute.
You've good reason to.

1387
01:40:39,088 --> 01:40:42,615
You and every other civilian
in the United States.

1388
01:41:08,384 --> 01:41:12,252
- What's the meaning of this outrage?
- I think I know.

1389
01:41:19,562 --> 01:41:21,928
If I was you,
Mr. Sharp, I'd vamoose.

1390
01:41:22,198 --> 01:41:25,634
- Custer's liable to go loco about this.
- I'm not getting out.

1391
01:41:25,801 --> 01:41:30,170
Have those bung-starters handy
when Goldilocks arrives.

1392
01:41:30,339 --> 01:41:32,068
He'll never close
this bar again.

1393
01:41:39,148 --> 01:41:41,116
This is none of your
affair, Custer.

1394
01:41:41,284 --> 01:41:44,617
We... We opened by authority
of the commissioner.

1395
01:41:44,787 --> 01:41:48,450
The drinks were free to the
men in honor of his visit.

1396
01:42:07,777 --> 01:42:12,077
Stop it! Stop it, Custer! You're destroying
private property. It's an order!

1397
01:42:12,248 --> 01:42:14,842
- This bar opened by my authority.
- Your authority?

1398
01:42:15,017 --> 01:42:18,180
If your men are drunken sots,
that's your responsibility.

1399
01:42:18,354 --> 01:42:20,083
Sots?

1400
01:42:20,756 --> 01:42:22,951
You cheap, bootlicking...

1401
01:42:23,125 --> 01:42:25,889
You contemptible parasite!

1402
01:42:34,937 --> 01:42:37,201
I'll see that he's
relieved of his command.

1403
01:42:37,373 --> 01:42:40,308
He'll be in Washington
for a court martial.

1404
01:42:43,646 --> 01:42:46,342
I wish you'd stopped in
Chicago and seen Uncle Phil.

1405
01:42:46,515 --> 01:42:50,713
We would only have been in Washington one
day later, and he might've helped you.

1406
01:42:50,886 --> 01:42:53,446
I don't think anyone
can help me now.

1407
01:42:53,623 --> 01:42:56,786
I struck a representative
of the government.

1408
01:42:56,959 --> 01:42:58,221
And I'd do it again.

1409
01:42:58,394 --> 01:43:01,693
When the facts are known, who in
all the world could blame you?

1410
01:43:01,864 --> 01:43:03,661
- You.
- I?

1411
01:43:04,000 --> 01:43:05,991
Yes, I should have
thought of you.

1412
01:43:06,168 --> 01:43:09,729
This mess has made me realize
how selfish I've been.

1413
01:43:09,905 --> 01:43:11,270
My dear.

1414
01:43:11,440 --> 01:43:14,841
Taking you away from
your home, comfort...

1415
01:43:15,011 --> 01:43:16,569
...peace of mind. - Darling...

1416
01:43:16,746 --> 01:43:20,147
...I knew what I was doing
when I married you.

1417
01:43:20,316 --> 01:43:23,012
But I didn't know what
I was doing to you.

1418
01:43:23,185 --> 01:43:26,814
- I've made you give up everything.
- I love you.

1419
01:43:28,157 --> 01:43:31,540
- Springfield! Five-minute
stop, five minutes.

1420
01:43:31,566 --> 01:43:34,417
- Why don't you get a
breath of fresh air?

1421
01:43:34,563 --> 01:43:36,599
No, I don't think so.
There may be

1422
01:43:36,625 --> 01:43:38,991
reporters around, and I
don't want to see anyone.

1423
01:43:39,135 --> 01:43:41,729
Is there anything I can get
you, magazine, cigars?

1424
01:43:41,904 --> 01:43:45,499
Nothing. Maybe a newspaper. You
better take a little walk yourself.

1425
01:43:45,675 --> 01:43:47,734
You've been cooped
up here long enough.

1426
01:43:49,945 --> 01:43:52,277
- Papers, papers.
- Paper.

1427
01:43:52,448 --> 01:43:56,407
- Have you a Chicago or Washington paper?
- <i>Chicago Record Herald</i>, just out.

1428
01:43:56,585 --> 01:44:01,215
- All about the big gold strike in Black
Hills. - The Black Hills in Dakota?

1429
01:44:01,390 --> 01:44:03,881
Yes. It's bigger than
the one in California.

1430
01:44:09,532 --> 01:44:10,965
Look at this.

1431
01:44:11,133 --> 01:44:12,760
Look.

1432
01:44:12,935 --> 01:44:14,562
Gold.

1433
01:44:14,737 --> 01:44:17,103
"Strike in the Black Hills.

1434
01:44:17,273 --> 01:44:21,232
The stampede started when an Indian
squaw tendered gold for supplies...

1435
01:44:21,410 --> 01:44:25,244
...in the Western Railroad Land and
Trading Company at Fort Lincoln."

1436
01:44:26,716 --> 01:44:30,152
"Thousands of people rushing
into the Black Hills."

1437
01:44:30,419 --> 01:44:34,253
That's what Mrs. Taipe meant. She said
thousands were coming to Dakota...

1438
01:44:34,423 --> 01:44:36,152
...and advised me to buy stock.

1439
01:44:36,325 --> 01:44:39,624
- Mrs. Taipe said that?
- Yes, the day you came back to the fort.

1440
01:44:39,795 --> 01:44:42,320
I didn't repeat it. I
didn't think it important.

1441
01:44:42,498 --> 01:44:44,591
The day I came back
to the fort...

1442
01:44:44,767 --> 01:44:47,861
...Mrs. Taipe knew then that
these people were coming.

1443
01:44:48,037 --> 01:44:49,402
But, Libby, don't you see?

1444
01:44:49,572 --> 01:44:52,006
This Indian woman came
into the fort yesterday.

1445
01:44:52,174 --> 01:44:55,371
- Then that must mean...
- There's no gold. It's a conspiracy...

1446
01:44:55,544 --> 01:45:00,846
...to break the peace treaty. Yes, and what
happened at the review was a part of it.

1447
01:45:01,016 --> 01:45:03,746
They had to get rid
of me, and no wonder.

1448
01:45:03,919 --> 01:45:07,320
I'd have hanged them all from the
fort gates, Taipe and the rest.

1449
01:45:07,490 --> 01:45:09,856
I'd have burnt the
railroad bridges.

1450
01:45:10,292 --> 01:45:13,591
And I gave my word to Crazy
Horse that the Sioux...

1451
01:45:13,763 --> 01:45:15,731
The Sioux.

1452
01:45:15,898 --> 01:45:18,662
Why, Libby, those fools don't
know what they've done.

1453
01:45:18,834 --> 01:45:22,395
Conductor. Conductor.

1454
01:45:40,389 --> 01:45:43,256
I'm saying that the commissioner
is Sharp's bought man.

1455
01:45:43,426 --> 01:45:45,121
- He has an interest...
- I object.

1456
01:45:45,294 --> 01:45:47,228
Objection sustained.

1457
01:45:47,396 --> 01:45:51,992
I'm sorry, but you must try to confine your
testimony to actual proof of conspiracy.

1458
01:45:52,168 --> 01:45:55,660
I'm here to tell you Sharp's company
tricked thousands of people...

1459
01:45:55,838 --> 01:45:58,864
...into violating Indian
territory with a tale of gold.

1460
01:45:59,041 --> 01:46:02,306
- And Taipe was a party to that plot.
- That's an accusation.

1461
01:46:02,478 --> 01:46:04,207
What facts can prove it?

1462
01:46:04,380 --> 01:46:07,406
Weeks before there was talk
of this so-called gold...

1463
01:46:07,583 --> 01:46:09,448
...Taipe's wife
said that people...

1464
01:46:09,618 --> 01:46:12,951
- I object to such testimony.
It's hearsay. - Sustained.

1465
01:46:13,122 --> 01:46:16,148
We can hear no evidence of that nature.
It's inadmissible.

1466
01:46:16,325 --> 01:46:17,553
Inadmissible?

1467
01:46:17,726 --> 01:46:21,184
Do you think you'll keep me from
testifying by legal skulduggery?

1468
01:46:21,363 --> 01:46:24,560
- Do you think I'd lie?
- No, colonel, but you're not a lawyer.

1469
01:46:24,733 --> 01:46:28,294
The testimony you're giving is
hearsay, the words of another person.

1470
01:46:28,471 --> 01:46:30,166
- It's never admissible.
- Never?

1471
01:46:30,339 --> 01:46:32,773
Except in the case of a
dying declaration...

1472
01:46:32,942 --> 01:46:36,070
...where words are spoken in
knowledge of approaching death.

1473
01:46:36,245 --> 01:46:40,511
You'll have plenty of evidence within a
few weeks. The treaty's been broken.

1474
01:46:40,683 --> 01:46:43,777
Within weeks, thousands will
be massacred in Black Hills.

1475
01:46:43,953 --> 01:46:46,421
That's why I blasted
this open in the press.

1476
01:46:46,589 --> 01:46:51,083
- Now you talk about legal technicalities.
- There need be no apprehension, gentlemen.

1477
01:46:51,293 --> 01:46:55,024
Generals Terry and Crook have orders
to concentrate forces in Yellowstone.

1478
01:46:55,197 --> 01:46:58,530
Three thousand American soldiers
should be a match for 3000 Sioux.

1479
01:46:58,734 --> 01:47:02,693
Why, you fool. Those troops are
infantry, useless against Indians.

1480
01:47:02,872 --> 01:47:05,102
And they won't find
any 3000 Sioux.

1481
01:47:05,274 --> 01:47:08,175
The sanctuary of the entire
red race is being violated.

1482
01:47:08,344 --> 01:47:11,541
They'll find every tribe in the
West ready to overwhelm them.

1483
01:47:11,714 --> 01:47:15,548
Not only Sioux, but Cheyenne, Blackfeet,
Sans Arcs, all the rest of them.

1484
01:47:15,718 --> 01:47:18,243
And who's to blame them?
Not I, gentlemen.

1485
01:47:18,420 --> 01:47:22,618
If I were an Indian, I'd fight beside
Crazy Horse to the last drop of my blood.

1486
01:47:22,791 --> 01:47:26,249
It's in Custer's interest to be alarmist.
He's relieved of command...

1487
01:47:26,428 --> 01:47:29,727
...awaiting court martial, but the War
Department doesn't share his fears.

1488
01:47:29,899 --> 01:47:34,268
Especially as among the forces ordered into
action is the celebrated 7th Cavalry...

1489
01:47:34,470 --> 01:47:38,201
...which boasts itself able to
defend the frontier single-handed.

1490
01:47:38,374 --> 01:47:42,401
Colonel Custer, have you any further
testimony to place before the committee?

1491
01:47:45,981 --> 01:47:47,414
None.

1492
01:47:47,583 --> 01:47:50,211
Then I move we
adjourn, gentlemen.

1493
01:48:09,204 --> 01:48:11,001
Was it that bad?

1494
01:48:12,141 --> 01:48:14,735
I'll start assembling
a division at once.

1495
01:48:14,910 --> 01:48:20,940
But it'll take time, Custer. Time. Troops
on the frontier will have to be sacrificed.

1496
01:48:21,717 --> 01:48:23,480
Including the 7th Cavalry.

1497
01:48:23,652 --> 01:48:25,586
What else can I do?

1498
01:48:26,822 --> 01:48:28,449
There's this.

1499
01:48:28,624 --> 01:48:30,353
Get my court martial postponed.

1500
01:48:30,526 --> 01:48:32,187
Get my command restored to me.

1501
01:48:32,561 --> 01:48:34,290
And let you commit suicide?

1502
01:48:34,463 --> 01:48:35,930
No, thank you.

1503
01:48:36,098 --> 01:48:37,690
You don't owe anybody that.

1504
01:48:38,100 --> 01:48:41,399
Sheridan, do you remember what
you said to me after Winchester?

1505
01:48:41,570 --> 01:48:44,437
You said, "If there's ever
anything you want from me...

1506
01:48:44,607 --> 01:48:47,337
...including my right arm,
don't ask, just take it."

1507
01:48:48,077 --> 01:48:52,036
I won't do it. You don't owe
those bloodsuckers anything.

1508
01:48:52,948 --> 01:48:54,848
I'm asking you, now.

1509
01:48:56,018 --> 01:48:58,282
There's Libby to be considered.

1510
01:48:58,454 --> 01:49:00,684
I wouldn't do it if I could.
But I can't.

1511
01:49:01,390 --> 01:49:03,722
Taipe would never
let it get through.

1512
01:49:03,892 --> 01:49:06,292
The only man who could
do it is the president.

1513
01:49:06,462 --> 01:49:09,727
Since these charges have all but
wrecked his administration...

1514
01:49:09,898 --> 01:49:13,129
...Ulysses S. Grant hates
the sound of your name.

1515
01:49:16,338 --> 01:49:17,635
Colonel Custer.

1516
01:49:17,806 --> 01:49:22,334
I regret the president declines to see you.
He instructs that any business you have...

1517
01:49:22,511 --> 01:49:25,139
...shall be conducted
through the War Department.

1518
01:49:38,794 --> 01:49:42,025
I'll remind you, sir, that I'm
president of the United States.

1519
01:49:42,197 --> 01:49:44,757
I'm not here to see
the president, Grant.

1520
01:49:45,067 --> 01:49:46,694
I'm here to see a soldier.

1521
01:49:46,869 --> 01:49:49,064
You've caused plenty
of trouble, Custer.

1522
01:49:49,238 --> 01:49:51,035
Sticking your nose
into politics.

1523
01:49:51,206 --> 01:49:54,801
- I want my regiment back. - All
you'll get from me is a court martial.

1524
01:49:54,977 --> 01:49:58,435
To the devil with a court martial.
I want my regiment back, Grant.

1525
01:49:58,847 --> 01:50:01,042
Tell me why I should
give it to you.

1526
01:50:02,117 --> 01:50:04,244
I'll tell you why.

1527
01:50:04,420 --> 01:50:07,321
Because you know how a man
feels when he's broken...

1528
01:50:07,489 --> 01:50:10,652
...when he's left behind and
his regiment's marching out.

1529
01:50:11,060 --> 01:50:13,051
You know how he feels, Grant...

1530
01:50:13,228 --> 01:50:15,458
...because you had a
taste of it yourself.

1531
01:50:36,985 --> 01:50:38,680
Get out.

1532
01:50:58,373 --> 01:51:00,102
All right.

1533
01:51:16,959 --> 01:51:19,723
My orders was to close up
as soon as you got back.

1534
01:51:19,895 --> 01:51:21,760
That's all right.

1535
01:51:21,930 --> 01:51:23,727
I just got in.

1536
01:51:23,899 --> 01:51:25,924
And am I glad to see you.

1537
01:51:26,101 --> 01:51:28,126
I'm going bughouse
in this joint.

1538
01:51:28,303 --> 01:51:32,535
Since you've been relieved of command, not
a soldier has set foot in this place.

1539
01:51:33,008 --> 01:51:34,873
Yes?

1540
01:51:35,043 --> 01:51:36,874
Indeed.

1541
01:51:38,814 --> 01:51:41,305
That's all right. You
needn't bother closing up.

1542
01:51:41,483 --> 01:51:44,748
Tell Mr. Sharp I want to see him.
And leave us alone together.

1543
01:51:44,920 --> 01:51:48,185
Oh, it's all right. There
won't be any disturbance.

1544
01:51:54,129 --> 01:51:56,893
Say, Custer's outside,
wants to see you.

1545
01:52:21,356 --> 01:52:23,017
I...

1546
01:52:23,192 --> 01:52:27,356
I gave orders to close the bar as soon
as I heard you took command again.

1547
01:52:27,529 --> 01:52:29,429
That's all right, Sharp.

1548
01:52:31,400 --> 01:52:34,597
Remember I told you once that
the day I took a drink...

1549
01:52:34,770 --> 01:52:37,261
...you could open the bar up?
- Yeah.

1550
01:52:37,439 --> 01:52:39,964
Well, I feel like
drinking tonight.

1551
01:52:40,142 --> 01:52:42,406
Things have been pretty bad.

1552
01:52:43,412 --> 01:52:45,209
You wanna join me?

1553
01:52:45,380 --> 01:52:47,905
Why, sure, sure. Why not?

1554
01:52:48,083 --> 01:52:51,416
- We'll let bygones be bygones, huh?
- Sure.

1555
01:52:59,761 --> 01:53:02,662
Say, hitting it kind
of hard, aren't you?

1556
01:53:03,065 --> 01:53:06,228
No point in half measures.
Drink up.

1557
01:53:19,882 --> 01:53:22,874
I... I hear the 7th's
marching out this morning...

1558
01:53:23,051 --> 01:53:26,987
...to make contact with Crook and
Terry at the Little Bighorn.

1559
01:53:27,155 --> 01:53:28,850
Yes.

1560
01:53:29,558 --> 01:53:31,890
The 7th's marching out.

1561
01:53:33,395 --> 01:53:35,522
Let's drink to the 7th.

1562
01:53:43,906 --> 01:53:45,271
Let's drink to them again.

1563
01:53:45,474 --> 01:53:48,238
Last time I drank it
in water, remember?

1564
01:53:48,410 --> 01:53:50,970
Well. Wait a minute, you...

1565
01:53:52,080 --> 01:53:53,479
Drink it.

1566
01:54:09,031 --> 01:54:11,509
If the outfits don't
fight through, you're

1567
01:54:11,535 --> 01:54:13,857
liable to have a lot of
Sioux on your hands.

1568
01:54:14,136 --> 01:54:15,433
Oh, yes.

1569
01:54:15,604 --> 01:54:17,834
Yes, quite a lot
of Sioux, Sharp.

1570
01:54:20,809 --> 01:54:23,778
But the greater the odds,
the greater the glory.

1571
01:54:24,346 --> 01:54:27,543
Come on, Sharp. Let's
drink to glory.

1572
01:54:35,257 --> 01:54:38,590
You always were a great
one for glory, Custer.

1573
01:54:39,227 --> 01:54:42,196
Remember...? Remember that day
you came to West Point...

1574
01:54:42,364 --> 01:54:44,696
...and you talked to
me about the statues?

1575
01:54:44,866 --> 01:54:47,130
Yes, yes, I remember.

1576
01:54:47,302 --> 01:54:49,532
Well, you got glory.

1577
01:54:49,705 --> 01:54:51,935
And what did glory get you?

1578
01:54:52,107 --> 01:54:53,734
A two-bit job...

1579
01:54:53,909 --> 01:54:57,902
...and a... And a court martial.
That's all.

1580
01:54:58,080 --> 01:55:00,708
Well, that's not enough.

1581
01:55:00,882 --> 01:55:04,374
Now we're gonna drink to something
that's... That's worth having.

1582
01:55:04,553 --> 01:55:08,785
Something they'll kiss
your feet for having.

1583
01:55:14,763 --> 01:55:16,958
Here's to money.

1584
01:55:17,132 --> 01:55:20,659
- And long may she jingle.
- Money.

1585
01:55:25,507 --> 01:55:27,805
You may be right
about money, Sharp.

1586
01:55:27,976 --> 01:55:29,534
Quite right.

1587
01:55:29,711 --> 01:55:33,112
- But there's one thing to be said
for glory. - And what's that?

1588
01:55:36,051 --> 01:55:38,542
You can take glory with you...

1589
01:55:38,720 --> 01:55:41,120
...when it's your time to go.

1590
01:56:29,404 --> 01:56:31,065
California.

1591
01:57:10,846 --> 01:57:13,212
Well, now, let's see.

1592
01:57:13,381 --> 01:57:15,281
Anything I've forgotten?

1593
01:57:16,084 --> 01:57:18,917
- Field glasses?
- Yep.

1594
01:57:19,087 --> 01:57:21,146
- Compass.
- Got it.

1595
01:57:21,323 --> 01:57:24,815
- Your watch.
- Watch, no.

1596
01:57:33,635 --> 01:57:36,536
You know, they ought to make
you quartermaster general.

1597
01:57:36,705 --> 01:57:40,641
Every time I go into the field, I'm the
best-equipped man in the regiment.

1598
01:57:43,078 --> 01:57:44,568
Oh, look at that.

1599
01:57:46,948 --> 01:57:48,506
Broken.

1600
01:57:49,317 --> 01:57:51,478
- What?
- The chain.

1601
01:57:51,653 --> 01:57:53,621
I won't be able to
take this with me.

1602
01:57:53,788 --> 01:57:56,518
It'll be the first time
you've gone in without it.

1603
01:57:56,691 --> 01:58:00,218
Yes. Well, there's no
time to have it fixed...

1604
01:58:00,395 --> 01:58:03,159
...and I don't want to take
a chance on losing it.

1605
01:58:03,331 --> 01:58:05,128
I'll leave it here.

1606
01:58:09,004 --> 01:58:11,063
Not much more time.

1607
01:58:15,377 --> 01:58:17,436
Here's your cartridge belt.

1608
01:58:18,613 --> 01:58:22,879
You know, I'm sure you're the first
soldier that ever became a general...

1609
01:58:23,051 --> 01:58:24,814
...without letting his belt out.

1610
01:58:24,986 --> 01:58:29,355
But you wait until we get that staff job
in Washington, after this campaign's over.

1611
01:58:29,524 --> 01:58:33,358
I'm gonna grow a big tummy on me like
General Winfield Scott, you know.

1612
01:58:33,528 --> 01:58:36,463
And we'll grow fat
and happy together.

1613
01:58:36,631 --> 01:58:38,462
- Together.
- And people will say:

1614
01:58:38,633 --> 01:58:41,329
"Don't tell me life in the
Dakotas was hardship.

1615
01:58:41,503 --> 01:58:45,803
Look at General and Mrs. Custer. They
certainly grew fat and happy on it."

1616
01:58:46,942 --> 01:58:48,705
You...

1617
01:58:48,877 --> 01:58:51,778
You have been happy here,
haven't you, Libby?

1618
01:58:53,448 --> 01:58:55,507
Don't I look happy?

1619
01:58:57,118 --> 01:58:58,915
Well, now. Let's see, what else?

1620
01:58:59,087 --> 01:59:01,146
Oh, my orders.

1621
01:59:01,323 --> 01:59:04,292
- I put them in that drawer, over there.
- I'll get it.

1622
01:59:13,735 --> 01:59:14,963
Well, what's this?

1623
01:59:15,971 --> 01:59:19,338
- "My life with General Custer."
- Oh, darling, that's my diary.

1624
01:59:19,507 --> 01:59:22,442
- I didn't know you kept one.
- It's a record of our life.

1625
01:59:22,611 --> 01:59:27,207
It wouldn't interest you. Just silly
things that seem important to a woman.

1626
01:59:27,382 --> 01:59:30,545
"Tomorrow, my husband leaves...

1627
01:59:30,719 --> 01:59:36,180
...and I cannot help but feel that
my last happy days are ended.

1628
01:59:36,358 --> 01:59:39,816
A premonition of disaster
such as I have never known...

1629
01:59:39,995 --> 01:59:42,054
...is weighing me down.

1630
01:59:43,365 --> 01:59:49,304
I try to shut it into my heart,
but it is almost unbearable.

1631
01:59:49,704 --> 01:59:54,869
I pray God I be not asked
to walk on alone."

1632
01:59:59,481 --> 02:00:02,746
You know, I probably wrote
that, or something like it...

1633
02:00:02,917 --> 02:00:04,384
...every time you went away.

1634
02:00:05,020 --> 02:00:07,318
Even for a day's journey.

1635
02:00:07,489 --> 02:00:09,753
You know how foolish women are.

1636
02:00:10,225 --> 02:00:15,094
Every parting has its own
fears and anxieties.

1637
02:00:18,500 --> 02:00:20,161
Of course.

1638
02:00:20,335 --> 02:00:22,428
I often feel like that myself.

1639
02:00:22,604 --> 02:00:26,199
But it... It has its
bright side too.

1640
02:00:26,374 --> 02:00:30,470
The more sadness in parting,
the more joy in the reunion.

1641
02:00:37,385 --> 02:00:39,512
Boots and saddles.

1642
02:00:42,924 --> 02:00:44,949
Goodbye.

1643
02:01:04,579 --> 02:01:07,139
Walking through life
with you, ma'am...

1644
02:01:08,016 --> 02:01:10,951
...has been a very
gracious thing.

1645
02:01:48,189 --> 02:01:51,352
Attention!

1646
02:01:51,526 --> 02:01:52,993
Sir, the regiment is formed.

1647
02:01:54,362 --> 02:01:55,590
Forward...

1648
02:01:55,764 --> 02:01:57,595
...ho!

1649
02:02:14,616 --> 02:02:16,447
Scouts out.

1650
02:03:21,049 --> 02:03:24,610
- Gray Eagle.
- Long Hair. Black Hills.

1651
02:03:24,986 --> 02:03:27,216
Go to lodge of Sitting Bull.

1652
02:03:27,388 --> 02:03:30,380
Let him call Sioux
chiefs to war council.

1653
02:03:52,847 --> 02:03:55,077
Halt!

1654
02:04:00,889 --> 02:04:03,517
Meet us on the Little
Bighorn at sunup.

1655
02:04:21,342 --> 02:04:24,243
Well, partner, the
scouts are back.

1656
02:04:24,579 --> 02:04:26,308
What's the report?

1657
02:04:26,781 --> 02:04:29,909
- Any news of Crook's column?
- Plenty of them, all scalped.

1658
02:04:31,886 --> 02:04:34,719
- Dead long?
- Oh, about a week, I reckon.

1659
02:04:34,889 --> 02:04:39,053
Crazy Horse attacked Crook's outfit
coming down a stream and massacred them.

1660
02:04:39,227 --> 02:04:43,288
And then Crook, he hightailed it back
to where he come from, Crook did.

1661
02:04:43,464 --> 02:04:45,523
He got away?

1662
02:04:45,700 --> 02:04:46,997
Where's Crazy Horse now?

1663
02:04:47,569 --> 02:04:52,529
Camped on the other side of Little Bighorn.
Headed to massacre Terry's outfit.

1664
02:04:54,475 --> 02:04:56,033
Then he's between us.

1665
02:04:56,210 --> 02:04:59,475
And I can't reach Terry in time.

1666
02:04:59,847 --> 02:05:01,610
Crazy Horse must
know we're here.

1667
02:05:01,783 --> 02:05:07,119
More darn Indians camped over on Little
Bighorn than grasshoppers in a cornfield.

1668
02:05:07,288 --> 02:05:10,553
Every kind of a goldarn
Indian you can think of!

1669
02:05:10,725 --> 02:05:14,627
You know, partner, we better vamoose
out of here, good and pronto.

1670
02:05:14,796 --> 02:05:16,627
We're not vamoosing.

1671
02:05:16,798 --> 02:05:18,060
I'm going to attack.

1672
02:05:18,800 --> 02:05:20,028
Attack?

1673
02:05:20,702 --> 02:05:22,067
It's Terry or us.

1674
02:05:22,236 --> 02:05:25,000
What chance has he got against
thousands of Indians?

1675
02:05:26,908 --> 02:05:29,308
What...? What better
chance have you got?

1676
02:05:30,211 --> 02:05:32,645
It's a cavalry job, Joe.

1677
02:05:32,981 --> 02:05:34,846
I can do more damage.

1678
02:05:35,016 --> 02:05:36,881
And if I can do enough...

1679
02:05:37,051 --> 02:05:41,385
...it'll give Terry a chance to stand them
off until Sheridan comes from Bismarck.

1680
02:05:41,556 --> 02:05:44,150
I'm wondering if I'm ever
gonna get to California.

1681
02:05:45,493 --> 02:05:50,795
- Tell Mr. Butler I want to see him.
- All right, partner. I mean, yes, sir.

1682
02:06:04,278 --> 02:06:07,076
- You sent for me, sir?
- Yes, Butler.

1683
02:06:07,248 --> 02:06:09,808
Take this letter into
Fort Lincoln tonight.

1684
02:06:09,984 --> 02:06:12,612
- Me? Tonight?
- Tonight.

1685
02:06:12,787 --> 02:06:14,550
- It's important.
- Must be...

1686
02:06:14,722 --> 02:06:19,182
...if it needs your bally adjutant
to play postman at a time like this.

1687
02:06:19,360 --> 02:06:22,227
Why are you asking me
to go back with it?

1688
02:06:23,898 --> 02:06:27,595
Well, for one thing, you're an
Englishman, not an American.

1689
02:06:27,769 --> 02:06:30,431
Not an American? What do
you Yankees think you are?

1690
02:06:30,605 --> 02:06:33,733
The only real Americans are on
the other side of the hill...

1691
02:06:33,908 --> 02:06:35,535
...with feathers in their hair.

1692
02:06:36,844 --> 02:06:38,573
You're probably
right about that.

1693
02:06:38,746 --> 02:06:40,737
But there's 6000 of them...

1694
02:06:40,915 --> 02:06:43,475
...and less than 600 of us.

1695
02:06:43,851 --> 02:06:46,285
The regiment's being
sacrificed, Butler.

1696
02:06:46,454 --> 02:06:49,855
I wouldn't want to see a foreigner
butchered in a deal like this.

1697
02:06:50,024 --> 02:06:52,424
Sporting of you to
think of it that way.

1698
02:06:52,593 --> 02:06:56,552
I'll remind you, sir, I'm a member
of the mess of the 7th U.S. Cavalry.

1699
02:06:56,731 --> 02:07:00,758
Fancy walking into the service club
in Piccadilly if the regiment...

1700
02:07:00,935 --> 02:07:03,631
Get somebody else to post
your blinking letter.

1701
02:07:03,938 --> 02:07:05,838
Thanks, Queen's Own.

1702
02:07:06,007 --> 02:07:07,406
Just so long as you know.

1703
02:07:07,909 --> 02:07:10,537
I'll get someone else.

1704
02:07:57,458 --> 02:07:59,187
You'll pay for this, Custer.

1705
02:07:59,360 --> 02:08:03,228
There's a law in this country against
abduction. You'll go to jail for it.

1706
02:08:03,598 --> 02:08:05,498
Maybe, Sharp, maybe.

1707
02:08:05,666 --> 02:08:08,863
What do you think you're doing?
Cut me loose.

1708
02:08:17,044 --> 02:08:19,512
Say, what is all this?
What does it mean?

1709
02:08:19,680 --> 02:08:22,672
- It means you're free.
- Free?

1710
02:08:23,151 --> 02:08:25,346
I don't know where I
am, what day it is.

1711
02:08:25,887 --> 02:08:28,151
It's about dawn on
the 25th of June.

1712
02:08:28,322 --> 02:08:33,487
You're on the Rosebud Ridge above Little
Bighorn River. The way home's due east.

1713
02:08:33,661 --> 02:08:36,858
The way home? From
the Little Bighorn?

1714
02:08:37,031 --> 02:08:40,023
Why, this whole country's
swarming with Sioux!

1715
02:08:40,201 --> 02:08:42,101
That's right, Sharp, it is.

1716
02:08:42,570 --> 02:08:46,529
Why, it's murder. What
chance will I have?

1717
02:08:46,707 --> 02:08:49,676
About the same chance as the
thousands of poor devils...

1718
02:08:49,844 --> 02:08:53,007
...you sent in here with that
lying tale about the gold.

1719
02:08:54,582 --> 02:08:57,346
I say it's murder. I won't go.

1720
02:08:57,585 --> 02:08:59,849
You don't have to, Sharp.

1721
02:09:00,021 --> 02:09:01,386
It's for you to choose.

1722
02:09:02,290 --> 02:09:04,349
What do you mean?

1723
02:09:07,495 --> 02:09:09,156
You mean...

1724
02:09:09,430 --> 02:09:13,093
- You mean you'll leave me here?
- No.

1725
02:09:13,334 --> 02:09:17,600
The regiment rides in about an hour.
You can ride with it if you want.

1726
02:09:18,039 --> 02:09:20,200
Where is the regiment riding?

1727
02:09:20,608 --> 02:09:22,599
To hell, Sharp...

1728
02:09:22,777 --> 02:09:24,574
...or to glory.

1729
02:09:24,745 --> 02:09:27,475
It depends on one's
point of view.

1730
02:10:16,397 --> 02:10:17,762
Not dead long.

1731
02:10:18,266 --> 02:10:19,699
Big war party go.

1732
02:10:20,534 --> 02:10:22,161
Sioux!

1733
02:10:30,511 --> 02:10:32,638
Forward rank, ho!

1734
02:10:45,459 --> 02:10:47,893
Draw saber!

1735
02:10:52,166 --> 02:10:53,827
Charge!

1736
02:12:15,716 --> 02:12:16,944
Fight on foot!

1737
02:14:41,896 --> 02:14:44,296
You dirty yellowbellies!

1738
02:14:44,465 --> 02:14:47,730
Oh, looks like I'll
never get to...

1739
02:15:13,594 --> 02:15:15,824
Maybe you were right...

1740
02:15:16,230 --> 02:15:17,959
...about glory.

1741
02:15:59,206 --> 02:16:01,800
But for the desperate attack
of the 7th Cavalry...

1742
02:16:01,976 --> 02:16:05,343
...Terry's force would've been
wiped out, squatters massacred...

1743
02:16:05,512 --> 02:16:08,606
...the whole frontier overrun,
Bismarck itself destroyed.

1744
02:16:08,782 --> 02:16:12,343
I'll see that the regiment gets
due recognition from Congress.

1745
02:16:12,519 --> 02:16:15,386
Let me remind you that all
Custer said came true.

1746
02:16:15,556 --> 02:16:18,354
Every Indian gathered to
defend the Black Hills...

1747
02:16:18,525 --> 02:16:21,926
...and the troops which you sent
against them were overwhelmed.

1748
02:16:22,162 --> 02:16:25,461
The public has begun to wonder
if some of the other things...

1749
02:16:25,633 --> 02:16:28,329
...he tried to say might
not have been true.

1750
02:16:28,502 --> 02:16:30,902
By what authority do you
talk to me like this?

1751
02:16:31,071 --> 02:16:33,539
By authority of the U.S.
president.

1752
02:16:33,707 --> 02:16:37,370
He had an opportunity to tell everything
at the congressional inquiry.

1753
02:16:37,544 --> 02:16:39,978
- He had a fair hearing.
- A fair hearing, Taipe?

1754
02:16:40,147 --> 02:16:43,361
I heard them tell him
that his testimony was

1755
02:16:43,387 --> 02:16:46,338
inadmissible, except as
a dying declaration.

1756
02:16:46,487 --> 02:16:48,955
Well, Custer's dead...

1757
02:16:49,123 --> 02:16:51,717
...but you're going
to hear him speak.

1758
02:17:02,503 --> 02:17:04,562
You have something
to say, Libby?

1759
02:17:04,738 --> 02:17:08,606
I have here a letter
from my husband...

1760
02:17:08,776 --> 02:17:10,869
...addressed to the nation.

1761
02:17:11,045 --> 02:17:14,105
It contains nothing with
which you are not familiar.

1762
02:17:14,281 --> 02:17:18,308
Only a restatement of the evidence
he attempted to put before Congress.

1763
02:17:18,519 --> 02:17:21,886
That evidence was ruled
hearsay, mere hearsay.

1764
02:17:22,089 --> 02:17:26,890
My husband wrote this letter on
the morning of June the 25th...

1765
02:17:27,061 --> 02:17:29,928
...in anticipation of
his death on that day.

1766
02:17:30,097 --> 02:17:34,261
He believed it to be what the committee
called a dying declaration...

1767
02:17:34,835 --> 02:17:37,395
...and as such, admissible
in a court of law.

1768
02:17:37,571 --> 02:17:40,540
You hear that? If that letter
gets out, we'll be lynched!

1769
02:17:40,708 --> 02:17:45,236
- Well, say something, man.
- It doesn't seem to matter, Taipe.

1770
02:17:45,679 --> 02:17:51,174
My son chose to go to his
death with the 7th Cavalry.

1771
02:17:52,386 --> 02:17:54,081
And I think I know why.

1772
02:17:54,488 --> 02:17:58,652
There is a price for which it can
be bought. Colonel Custer's price.

1773
02:17:58,826 --> 02:18:00,851
Well, what is it? Name it.

1774
02:18:01,028 --> 02:18:02,757
The company must be dissolved.

1775
02:18:02,930 --> 02:18:04,591
The company is dissolved.

1776
02:18:04,765 --> 02:18:08,292
Mr. Taipe, you must resign
your office as commissioner.

1777
02:18:08,469 --> 02:18:12,200
- Resign?
- And before you leave this room.

1778
02:18:18,178 --> 02:18:20,735
And there's another
price, General Sheridan.

1779
02:18:20,761 --> 02:18:22,606
The price the
administration must pay.

1780
02:18:22,750 --> 02:18:25,981
The administration must make
good its promise to Crazy Horse.

1781
02:18:26,153 --> 02:18:29,884
The Indians must be protected in their
right to exist in their country.

1782
02:18:30,057 --> 02:18:32,484
I have the authority
to answer that from

1783
02:18:32,510 --> 02:18:35,042
the administration, from
the president himself.

1784
02:18:43,937 --> 02:18:45,768
Come, my dear.

1785
02:18:45,939 --> 02:18:49,534
Your soldier won his
last fight after all.