Son of The Morning Star | Gary Cole, Rosanna Arquette | Was a very good movie, well preformed and...

Son of The Morning Star | Gary Cole, Rosanna Arquette | very authentic recreation Custer's last battle

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	Son of The Morning Star Gary Cole, Rosanna Arquette Republic Pictures, 1998 average customer review:based on 44 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Was a very good movie, well preformed and directed

I saw this movie as TV movie some time ago and was so impressed I had to own the video. It is very entertaining, and informative. Anyone interested in history movies would enjoy this one. The actors seemed very real in their parts, the directing was very good. An excellent movie and I would recommend it to anyone,

very authentic recreation Custer's last battle

Excellent. It doesn't get much better than this fact based story of General George A. Custer's life and indian wars of the 1870's and 1880's.Custer is legendary in western history for being a dire enemy of the american indian. His disire to rid the american west of it's indigenous people proved to be his undoing the battle of the little bighorn area south of modern day Billings, MT.,ending a 10 year army campaign to eliminate the indians from the last frontier.Gary Cole was wonderful as the flamboyant cavalry officer tasked to rid the likes of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull and other war cheifs of the era. Based on Evan S. Connell's excellant best-seller book.Co-starring Rosanna Arquette as Lizzy Custer and Dean Stockwell as General Phillip Sheridan. Rodney Grant plays Crazy Horse.In the tradition of Dances With Wolves and the Last of The Mohicans this movie won't disappoint if you like westerns and history of the period.

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I watch this at least once or twice a year after Richard III

I am one of the fans of Custer, but in the same mode as I am a fan of Richard III: I enjoy both sides of the life, the dark and the romatic. I find a great deal of similarity in both creations, that of Shakespeare and this video, with the darker side of Custer a little less fictional (or propaganda) than Poor Richard. This video is a practical balance, but the best acting is the portrayal of wife Libby and the counterpoint officers to Custer's character, especially Reno. I read the book, reread the book. then tried the Buried Knee text (a term which best identifies its theme: bad white man, poor Indian). The drama has good rising action, with a series of events in the plot that reminds one also of Julius Caesar, the dream of Libby, the warning of the scouts. and the passion for glory that leads not to a crown for Custer, but an attempt for fame in a reach for a second climax to equal his meteroic Civil War (War Between the States in Georgia) career. The ending scene of the one time general is fine, with the dying Custer focusing on arrows flying overhead. Narration by Libby his wife and the young Indian girl suspend disbelief, but the graphic scene of the killed soldiers of Custer's command is left out. So much for TV criticism! A fine piece of work on a not so fine Colonel still bucking for general or even President!

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good to exellant portrayal of events leadingup to battle

despite the constraints of film making,budget,time,logistics etc. this movie exceeded my expectations. I was privileged to participate in the making of this movie as a reenactor and count it as one of the best months time i have ever spent. Although more than slightly politically correct,I highly reccomend this movie.

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