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Two cavalry officers compete for the same woman during the Sioux Wars. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, and more for this drama romance western.
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- Drama, Romance, Western
- Arnold Laven
- 1965-07-07
The Glory Guys is a 1965 American Western Panavision film directed by Arnold Laven and written by Sam Peckinpah based on the 1956 novel The Dice of God by Hoffman Birney. Produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven and released by United Artists, the film stars Tom Tryon, Harve Presnell, Senta Berger, James Caan and Michael Anderson Jr.
Inspired by the Battle of the Little Bighorn, this Western follows a selfish military leader, Gen. Frederick McCabe (Andrew Duggan), who unfeelingly throws his soldiers into dangerous battle...
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- Tom Tryon
- Arnold Laven
- Levy-Gardner-Laven
A cavalry captain (Tom Tyron) leads a company of raw recruits against a general (Andrew Duggan) who sacrificed his men in a previous battle. He also faces a love triangle with a widow (Senta Berger) and a scout (Harve Presnell).
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A romantic comedy about two cavalry officers competing for the same woman during the Sioux Wars. The film follows their adventures, conflicts, and battles with the Sioux and each other.
A widescreen western shot by the great James Wong Howe (three years out from his Oscar® win for Martin Ritt's Hud, 1963) and based on the 1876 massacre of the 7th Cavalry under George Armstrong Custer, The Glory Guys began with a novel by pulp western writer Herman Hoffman Birney.
Overview. Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a generic war story covering the enlistment, training, and operational deployment of a group of recruits that could take place in any time period. Arnold Laven. Director. Hoffman Birney. Novel.
