They died with their boots on.
“Most of them had fled famine-ravaged Ireland in the 1840s and found, in the US Army, a secure meal-ticket and adventure, first in the Civil War – where the Irish fought on both sides – and later in the Indian Wars, as America spread westward across the Great Plains.”
“Errol Flynn played the swashbuckling Custer in the buckskin jacket, a jacket that in real life, we now know, had been made for him by 35-year-old Sergeant Jeremiah Finley from Co Tipperary, one of the Seventh Cavalry’s regimental tailors. Finley died on Last Stand Hill.”
How Irish was Flynn?
— Tim
rswilltell
May 22, 2018 at 12:35 pm
This is a magnificent film and one of Errol Flynn’s finest! Raoul Walsh really rose to the occasion, and so did Max Steiner! Ralph Schiller