The shifting lens through which Hollywood has portrayed George Armstrong Custer—a figure as flamboyant as he is contentious—offers a revealing snapshot of evolving attitudes toward Wild West mythology. In the golden age of Classic Hollywood, Custer was immortalised as a romantic martyr, his doomed heroism epitomised by Errol Flynn’s dashing turn in *They Died With Their Boots On* (1941). By the New Hollywood era, re…







