Good and Bad

This movie gave a good, if fictionalized, account of Custer's battle, and I liked all the battle and training scenes. These had the stamp of Peckinpah on them and were well filmed (I have no idea which scenes he actually directed). What was not so good was the love triangle worked in with Senta Berger,Tom Tryon and Harve Presnell. It was pretty standard and not too realistic either (come on, that fight scene between them in her apartment practically destroyed it, yet she didn't seem upset?). Also, even though he became a first-rate actor, James Caan was so cornball "Irish" in this one, not very good at all, and when Harve Presnell goes courting in his raspberry pink shirt, paisley cravat and well-coiffed hair, he seemed more like he was playing Liberace than an Army scout!