Just have to share this.
Have been binge downloading Noir movies directed by
Robert Siodmak. [One is called
Phantom Lady] . My latest library haul to keep me from going stir crazy in Lockdown, included a
Longmire novel by Craig Johnson. [Great Netflix series - recommended]
So, absolutely no connection, right?
So I sit out on my porch in my easy chair in the sunshine and open up, '
Next to Last Stand.' The Longmire series is a contemporary Western police procedural, if you don't know. But this one references
Custer's last stand.
Longmire and his Deputy and best friend
Henry Standing Bear in the best 3 way conversational summation of Custer's Last stand that you are ever likely to read, which is triggered by a Custer movie on the TV in Henry's bar.
'This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen"
'Yes, in the canon of truly horrible Custer movies, this is one of the worst.
'How do you suppose they got Robert Shaw to be in it?'
Aha!
That would be '
Custer of the West' (1967) which was directed by - wait for it - Robert Siodmak!
For reasons I have yet to research, At the end of his career, Robert Siodmak, up there with Orson Welles at his best, was reduced to making rubbish films in Europe. Like this one.
Here is the only doco film I could find on Siodmak, however it is 'im deutch'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5PIJ1IG_Fw Robert Siodmak - Dokumentation - exercise Most of his Noir films are available on YouTube and still free.
Great Siodmak story from Ernest Borgnine.
Ernest Borgnine Pt 2 - on Siodmak, From Here to Eternityhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6l47VEZNMA Custer of the West | WESTERN | Full Length | US Kavallerie Western | Full Movie | English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzuuVxQT2f8Cheers!