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Custer’s
Last Fight
(1912)
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This early Thomas H. Ince western stars Francis Ford and Grace Cunard, with Chief William Eagleshirt, J. Barney Sherry, Art Acord, Ann Little, Lillian Christy and Charles K. French.
To his credit, Ince employed native peoples to portray Indians in his films rather than white actors in ridiculous makeup. However, we can’t get used to soldiers saluting Custer with their left hand.
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Grapevine Video
2005 DVD edition
Custer’s Last Fight (1912) [1925 rerelease version], black & white, 54 minutes, not rated, with The New Fire Chief (1912), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 6.8 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 256 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: January 2005.
Country of origin: USA •
Ratings (1-10): video: 3 / audio: 3 / additional content: 5 / overall: 3.
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