Couldn't stand this character, with all that palaver about "yellow-bellied red devils" and the like. I cheer every time he gets killed! Sometimes comic relief just doesn't stand the test of time.
"We're fighting for this woman's honor, which is more than she ever did."
I like him!
shareFor whatever it's worth, the real California Joe was no longer with the 7th Cavalry during Custer's Last Stand. (Custer had him transferred because he was constantly drunk.) He was attached to Crook's command, and then was killed in a brawl at Fort Robinson, Nebraska four months later.
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If you are going to watch films from decades past, you must make allowances for the different social, moral, and political differences between the time the film was made, and the way we see things today. To judge people of the past by the standards of today is utterly unfair. Some people today seem to believe that this generation has the last word on what is right and wrong. This is a narrow and stunted viewpoint. I'd love to see what sacred cows of today are the fodder for hilarity or disgust 100 years from now.
"It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's LIVING!"
Captain Augustus McCrae