08-14-2009, 04:41 PM
One of my favorite movies of the 40s was "They Died With Their Boots On," starring Erroll Flynn as George Armstrong Custer. In this film Winfield Scott (Sydney Greenstreet) commanded the Union forces throughout the war, the battle of Gettysburg was fought on terrain that greatly resembled southern California, and Custer saved the day at Gettysburg by leading repeated cavalry charges before being shot by a Reb armed with an 1873 Colt Peacemaker. This was at a time when many Civil War vets were still alive. It was still a great movie. Hollywood movies have always been fantasies.
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