They Died with Their Boots On w/ Matt Zoller Seitz

Video essay on They Died with Their Boots On (1941, dir. Raoul Walsh), #911 (51) in the Shooting Down Pictures project. Commentary by Matt Zoller Seitz, film critic for the New York Times and host of The House Next Door (mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com) For more info visit alsolikelife.com/shooting.

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[python130]

I love this movie,i Love the actors in this movie.Thank you so much for sharing it.Hope you ll upload the rest of it soon.

[Danytalk]

WIHT HONOR MAN ....

[fromis111]

@doctornoooo I completely disagree with you. I found this to be very well-written and insightful and the clips really reinforce Seitz' points about composition and editing. We must have watched different videos.

[1915fas]

@801liveable Custer led the 1st Michigan Cavalry at Gettysburg breaking the back of Stuart's Confederate assault. Custer spent much of his early life in Monroe Michigan where not surprisingly there is an equestrian statue of him. In May 1866, Custer returned to Monroe, Michigan, where he considered running for Congress. He toured the country with President Johnson and when Johnson was jeered by Ohioans Custer said to them "I was born two miles and a half from here, but I am ashamed of you'

[801liveable]

concerning the facts being "thrown around" in this movie..while CUSTER'S troops are charging early on in this clip you see a soldier holding a banner with Michigan on it..GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER, never had an affiliation with the state of MICHIGAN..he never led troops from there nor was he born there..CUSTER, was born in SOUTHEASTERN OHIO..during the civil war his battalion was from OHIO..during his indian engagements most of his troops were from OHIO....

[1915fas]

I like the scene where Custer kidnaps the crooked agent and brings him to the Bighorn river . He gives him the choice to walk back or fight with the 7th.' Hell or glory it all depends on one's point of view.' It seems unavailable today.

[NYsentinel]

WHAT A RUSH !!!

[doctornoooo]

What nonsense: its like listening to some very bad analysis of a chess game, Forget the lack of history, this is a movie, My Darling Clementine had as much to do with what really went on in Tombstone as if it had been shot in Disneyland, the only trouble is that it happens to be one of the greatest, got that, greatest westerns ever made. So toss history out the window. But this analysis, wow, its like listening to a psychiatrist even crazier than the serial killer he's talking about.

[SirJC]

Im really injoyd ur film... Very well don work

[custerdivision]

Matt Zoller Seitz, did you open an historical book before doing your review?? You seem completely unaware of Custer's real life.