What the hell happened to GARRYOWEN?
Does anyone out there have any idea why not a single bar of Garryowen is heard throughout this entire movie?
Never mind the weird Spaghetti Western soundtrack you do hear instead, which in many places in the movie is totally out of place. Garryowen was the 7th Cavalry's and Custer's theme song! The regiment's musicians played it everywhere they went, and they still do to this day! It's in the public domain, and probably was (as an old Irish drinking song) way back when the regiment adopted it. There shouldn't have been any copyright problem with incorporating it into the ambient music or the score. (Max Steiner apparently never had a problem with it in They Died With Their Boots On, nor did Craig Safan in Son of the Morning Star.) The song itself is almost a separate personality in the history of Custer and the Seventh, and it's conspicuous by its absence in this film.