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The Glory Guys is a 1965 American Western Panavision film directed by Arnold Laven and written by Sam Peckinpah based on the 1956 novel The Dice of God by Hoffman Birney. Produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven and released by United Artists, the film stars Tom Tryon, Harve Presnell, Senta Berger, James Caan and Michael Anderson Jr.
The Glory Guys: Directed by Arnold Laven. With Tom Tryon, Harve Presnell, Senta Berger, James Caan. What could be worse for two cavalry officers than to battle with native tribes? To battle each other for the same woman.
Inspired by the Battle of the Little Bighorn, this Western follows a selfish military leader, Gen. Frederick McCabe (Andrew Duggan), who unfeelingly throws his soldiers into dangerous battle ...
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On its own terms, The Glory Guys holds its own as a rousing men-on-a-mission adventure, falling somewhere on the continuum between J. Lee Thompson's The Guns of Navarone (1961) and Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen (1967).
Jun 28, 2015 · The Glory Guys (1965) Tom Tyron plays Capt. Demas Harrod, a cavalryman expected to train and lead a company of raw recruits sent to Fort Doniphan, which is under the command of Gen. Frederick McCabe (Andrew Duggan). That makes Harrod very leery.
During the Sioux Wars, General Frederick McCabe's 3rd U. S. Cavalry Regiment recruits and trains men for the upcoming campaign against the Sioux. Captain Demas Harrod is in charge of the D troop.
Overview. Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a generic war story covering the enlistment, training, and operational deployment of a group of recruits that could take place in any time period. Arnold Laven.
