(1948) John Wayne, Henry Fonda, John Agar, Shirley Temple,
Ward Bond, George O’Brien, Anna Lee, Victor McLaglen,
Grant Withers, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Dick Foran, Guy Kibbee,
Irene Rich, Mae Marsh, Jack Pennick, Miguel Inclan, Movita,
Mary Gordon, Francis Ford, Frank Ferguson.
This first film of John Ford’s famous “Cavalry Trilogy” serves as
a documentary-type western, offering a story reminiscent of General
George Custer and a tribute to the B Company of the 7th Cavalry.
The film opens with the bitter war general, Owen Thursday (Fonda)
bellyaching about being busted down to a colonel and transferred
to an ignored outpost……………………………………………………………..