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Aspect Ratio: 2.20:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305388876
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305388873
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: April 13, 1999
Running Time: 141 minutes
Sales Rank: 122994
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: January 24, 1968
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
General George Armstrong Custer has been portrayed as everything from a vain but ultimately honorable hero (Errol Flynn in They Died with Their Boots On) to an insane, pompous incompetent (Richard Mulligan in the biting Little Big Man), but few have attempted an ambitious look at the man in all his contradictions. Robert Siodmak's Custer of the West, his final American production, attempts the task with fine results, portraying the career soldier as a pragmatist, a disciplinarian with a bullying streak, a loner, and ultimately an Old World romantic in the modern age. Robert Shaw gives the role a regal bearing (though his continental accent keeps drifting in) and a sense of dignity, depicting a man who ironically identifies more with the Indians than with the U.S. Army. Jeffrey Hunter and Ty Hardin costar as his battling junior officers and Robert Ryan is memorable in a brief appearance as a gold-mining deserter. Shooting in handsome widescreen and vivid Technicolor, Siodmak makes his outdoor settings come alive and nimbly handles the many action scenes, most notably a chase that sends an escaping soldier whooshing down a log water chute like a Disney ride. Siodmak's sweeping visuals deliver both grand images and ironic counterpoint, but ultimately Custer of the West eschews the heroism of Hollywood adventures for a portrait of the corrupt state of the American military and one man's hopeless fight against it. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - So, so, movie but still in the correct ratio (2.2:1)
I wouldn't bother to review this picture if it hadn't been for the "alarmists" around here, who claim that the picture has been cropped down to 1.85:1 (and this has to be assumed, when reading the back of the MGM/UA sleeve).
IT IS A TYPO! (Illiterate printers?)
IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE AND THIS IS WHY...
The picture was filmed in the "bastardized" Cinerama format, which at one time was spectacular in scope and as we know from "How the West Was Won" (just recently ... Read More
Rating:  - really good DVD?
It's really a good DVD release?
I haven't seen the DVD and do not buy it. Because? The DVD it's in 1,85:1.
It was filmed in: Super Technirama 70
Printed format: 35 mm / 70 mm (Super-Cinerama) / 70 mm
Aspect ratio: 2.20 : 1 (negative ratio) / 2.35 : 1 (35 mm prints)
As filmfan I want only the original format. Sorry for this I can give only one point / star.
But Ty hardin is great :-)
Rating:  - A different look at George Armstrong Custer
Over the years, certain incidents from the Wild West have been dealt with over and over again in Hollywood; the gunfight at the OK Corral, the battle of the Alamo, and as in the case of Custer of the West, the life of George Armstrong Custer. Following the Civil War, General Phil Sheridan gives Custer a post in the west with the 7th Cavalry and orders to clean out the Indians no matter what. Upon arriving, Custer gets his regiment into fighting shape and unleashes attacks on the Cheyenne (no Sioux ... Read More
Rating: - MOST BIZARRE TELLING OF THE CUSTER LEGEND
It was once said that you shouldn't get your history or your religion from the movies, and this is a GREAT example why! It would have you think that ALL the battles of the U.S. Civil War were fought with about a dozen Confederates and a handful of Federal cavalry. There were even scenes of unmanned cannon firing themselves -- not an artilleryman (or anyone else) anywhere in sight! In fact, throughout this movie all cavalry battle sequences were anemic, lethargic and DULL! The Little Big Horn battle ... Read More
Rating:  - Custer of the West
CUSTER OF THE WEST (1967) might be a good movie, although it's definitely not a very good or great one. I say it might be a good movie because the version I watched was the Simitar Video release from 1998, which is the full screen, pan-and-scan version. Sorry, you just aren't supposed to watch an action movie that's missing more than a quarter of the image.
Robert Shaw plays Custer in this biopic, director Robert Siodmak's last American film and the weakest one of his I've seen. The movie ... Read More
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