The Great Sioux Massacre
The Great Sioux Massacre is a 1965 Revisionist Western film directed by Sidney Salkow in CinemaScope using extensive action sequences from Salkows 1954 Sitting Bull. In a greatly fictionalised form, it depicts events leading up to the Battle of the Little Bighorn and Custers Last Stand.
The film begins at Board of Inquiry over the Battle of the Little Big Horn specifically examining the conduct of Major Marcus Reno. Captain Bill Benton perhaps inspired by Frederick Benteen is called to the stand, and rather than merely answer questions from the board states that he will tell his version of the true story that the audience sees through flashback.Benton relates his first arrival in the Wild West where his detachment is escorting the wife of the local Indian Agent Mr. Turner. The Indians attack the party and abduct Mrs Turner away from Bentons command. Bentons Army Scout Dakota advises against tracking the Indians until the next day due to their laying false trails that lead into ambushes. Dakota and Benton come across a wounded Indian who Dakota shoots so he will not have to starve on an Indian Reservation. ........
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