Little Big Man

Nothing better illustrates the profound cultural and political convulsions that reshaped American society in the late 1960s than the diametrically opposed manner in which Hollywood treated the same historical event—the Battle of the Little Bighorn—and its most infamous participant, George Armstrong Custer, across a span of three decades. In 1941, Raoul Walsh’s *They Died with Their Boots On*, a quintessential Classi…