screenshots / Custer of the West / 1967 Cinerama Productions Corp.

Starring Robert Shaw (The Royal Hunt of the Sun) and directed by Robert Siodmak (Cobra Woman) the film presents a highly fictionalized version of the life and death of George Armstrong Custer.

The film co-stars actors Ty Hardin (PT 109), Jeffrey Hunter (White Feather) and Kieron Moore (The 300 Spartans).

Uncredited as a bartender, Joaquín Gómez would later star (under the name of Dan Barry) as the warrior Tunka in the 1984 sword & sorcery film Tunka el guerrero.

The production filmed in Spain mostly near Madrid, except for the Battle of Little Big Horn which was a location in Almería near Costa del Sol.

Robert Shaw passed in 1978 at ther age of 51.

Ty Hardin passed in 2017 at the age of 87.