7th Cavalry (film)

7th Cavalry is a 1956 American Western film directed by Joseph H. Lewis based on a story, A Horse for Mrs. Custer, by Glendon Swarthout set after the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Filmed in Mexico, the picture stars Randolph Scott and Barbara Hale.

Once the commands of Major Marcus Reno Frank Wilcox and Captain Frederick Benteen Michael Pate have returned, they and the widows hold Benson in contempt, not only for not being at the battle in command of his men, but what they perceived as George Custers liking for him, Bensons nonWest Point background, and his career as a gambler until commissioned into the Regiment.Marthas father Colonel Kellogg Russell Hicks comes to the post to conduct a Board of Inquiry into Custers actions that Benson sees as a smear against a man he admires who can not defend himself. ........

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