Here's to Money

This film is not an accurate depaiction of Custer or of the events surrounding the Little Big Horn. I think we all know than and, as with so many films of this period it's simply a question of whether you are going to enjoy the film on it's own level- as a ripping good yarn about a military hero at a time when we needed them, or are you going to condemn the film for "lying" about history and leave it at that. That's up to the viewer and I'm not going to argue the point either way. I myself love Errol Flynn movies because I grew up with them but am at best uneasy about the dramatic license used.

What occurred to me in viewing this film again is how relevant it is to our present situation, (at least as I and an increasing number of people see it). A group of politicians, businessmen and certain military types conspire to create a war for their own financial benefit and get a lot of soldiers killed in the process.

You can't take it with you. What you can take is not so much glory but an earlier subject of Custers- your good name.