KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Ricardo Daly The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

HotToastyRag They Died with Their Boots On is a biopic about the famed General Custer, but if you're wondering how one battle can fill out an entire movie, you're in for a treat. The vast majority of the movie is about his early life. Turns out, Custer was a little scoundrel in his West Point days, holding the record of lowest grades and most broken rules and punishments. In-between losing his temper, disobeying his superiors, and picking fights with everyone, he also falls in love with Olivia de Havilland-in case you hadn't guessed, Errol Flynn plays Custer. I have no idea how historically accurate this movie is, but there are little details that, if true, are very funny. Errol has a penchant for eating raw onions, and while Olivia hates the very smell of them, when he comes calling, she joins him in an appetizer, suffering for true love. Speaking of suffering, Olivia's maid is played by Hattie McDaniel, and it's pretty amusing to watch their scenes together. Two years earlier they were in Gone with the Wind together, and Hattie beat Olivia out of an Oscar she very much felt she should have won. In They Died with Their Boots On, Olivia looks at Hattie like she absolutely hates her! I wonder why she couldn't just cover her real feelings and act nice when the camera was rolling.Errol Flynn is wonderful, as always, owning the screen with his magnetic, strong, vibrant, masculine presence. He's a born hero, as proved by his many famous film roles, and it's no effort to convincingly play a larger-than-life figure like General Custer. If you like Errol, or Errol and Olivia together, rent this epic for your next movie night. It's a very well done classic, and while some of the interactions and battle scenes with the Native Americans-keep an eye out for a very young Anthony Quinn-will be a little upsetting, it's still a good quality film with high production values. Plus there's quite a large supporting cast, including Arthur Kennedy, Gene Lockhart, Sydney Greenstreet, and Regis Toomey.

BoomerDT I don't know that much about the historical Custer and I know there are quite a few different versions of what may have happened at Little Big Horn. However, I take virtually any movie bio or story retelling a historical event with a large grain of salt. Take "Boots" for what it is, an action packed story of George Custer leading the cavalry in the Civil War and in the Indian Wars in the Black Hills. WB did a good job with these types of flicks, this was their heyday. Loaded with plenty of great chase scenes shot on location. Errol Flynn is as good in this as he is in any of his WB action movies of the 30's & 40's. This is also the final of 8 pairings with him and Olivia de Havilland. She was now a huge star after "GWTW" and no doubt tired of playing Flynn's love interest in these films. She was virtually the same character in every one, who would play slightly hard to get all the while being head of heels in love with Flynn, who juggled romance while fighting whomever his foe may be. Still, they have a very poignant final scene, when Custer says farewell to his wife Libby (De Havilland) before heading out to lead the 7th Cavalry to Little Big Horn. They both know without saying that he's not returning. If you can get through some of the silly early scenes when Custer behaves as a boob at West Point, it's a top notch movie and surprisingly sympathetic in its portrayal of the Indians, with Anthony Quinn as Crazy Horse.

denis888 Well, well, such grand black and white 2-hour long movies could only appear in the 30-50'. Now, it will be virtually impossible to imagine such a crazy medley of motley genres and often unimaginably incoherent episodes. This head-cutting array of pure comedy, farce, tragedy, love story, drama, war film, and who-knows-what-not is sometimes puzzling and dazzling. Errol Flynne is excellent here, he was made right for this movie, with his arrogant air, big grin, flashy style, wild morale, unhinged behavior and tear-jerking sentimentality. Generally, the film is Not the accurate history document, as sometimes it borders on the brink of purely slapstick comedy of The Marx Bothers. The Civil War here is at least sketchy and jotted, the whole post-war period is at best blurred and slurred. The heroic demise? Custer's Last Stand? Well, typical sped-up cavalry run, chaotic battle, unrealistic deaths and falling. The Indians are pure barbarians here, only great mighty Anthony Quinn is a great Must See. generally, strange and not tragic death scene. It goes, and yes, it goes. That is all. The conclusion? Nice. Not perfect

Naileddown2 Very good movie. Not sure if the humor is part of the construction to defer from the historical inaccuracies but excellent none the less. DeHaviiland and Flynn got along very well I suspect from there on screen ease of relating and comic timing. The Negro maid is very good also and of course Greenstreet with the funny laugh. Th film has a contemporary feel with its offhanded, dis-organized script structure(for the time) and slapstick relief throughout. Why is it that Anthony Quinn doesn't seem to look much different even 20 years later. It is interesting that Flynn got away with his strange mix of accents which may have formed part of his attraction and point of difference from other actors at the time.