Movie
1970
Little Big Man is a 1970 American revisionist Western film directed by Arthur Penn, adapted by Calder Willingham from Thomas Berger's 1964 novel of the same title. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Jeff Corey and Richard Mulligan. The film follows the life of a white man who was raised by members of the Cheyenne nation during the 19th century, and then attempts to reintegrate…
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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…More
