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They Died with their Boots On

1941

Raoul Walsh

Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin ...

7.3

15,995

Western. War The film follows the life of George Armstrong Custer (Errol Flynn) from attending West Point, wooing of Elizabeth Bacon (Olivia de Havilland), the American Civil War, and the Battle of Little Big Horn. In the film, the battle is blamed on unscrupulous corporations and politicians craving the land of Crazy Horse (Anthony Quinn) and his people.

	Author	Review
United States	TV Guide	"If one can ignore the blatantly fictitious nature of this Hollywood 'biography' of the still-controversial George Armstrong Custer, THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON is a wholly entertaining movie"	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"The liberties which the screen writers have taken with well established and authenticated facts are likely to be a bit trying in spots. But the test of the yarn is not its accuracy, but its speed and excitement. Of these it has plenty."	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"An unusual epic, the first half is a knockabout comedy, but thoroughly entertaining."	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Milne Time Out	"Absolutely irresistible."	POS
United States	Nick Schager Slant	"Even if historical erroneousness intermittently undermines the film’s outlandish attempts at lionization, They Died with Their Boots On endures as one of the finest Flynn-de Havilland collaborations"	POS

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