They Died With Their Boots
On (1941)
In director Raoul Walsh's historically-inaccurate
but rousing western/adventure biopic:
- the tale of the life of the infamous General George
Armstrong Custer (Errol Flynn) from his time at West Point to the
climactic action scene of his final conflict against Chief Sitting
Bull at the Battle of the Little Big Horn massacre
- previously, the scene of his heart-rending farewell
goodbye to his wife Elizabeth "Libby"
Bacon (Olivia de Havilland) who sensed disaster and then collapsed
to the floor when he left