Another side story, of the two scouts who want to join the regiment, also helps to keep the film interesting.Įvents and their results are portrayed in the film mostly in a matter-of-fact, 'this is the way it happened,' almost docudrama sort of style.

If that's not enough, Custer and Stuart are also rivals for Kit Carson's (Olivia De Havilland) hand in marriage that story provides a little humour to lighten things up a bit. It ends with Brown's raid on the armory in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and his famous last words, spoken on the gallows. Stuart and George Custer), and John Brown, who is by now also in Kansas. Leavenworth (paying particular attention to J.E.B. Leavenworth, Kansas, upon their graduation.įrom there, the film follows both the graduates at Ft. The other cadets are to be stationed at Ft. Rader is summarily discharged, and joins John Brown's forces. A scuffle breaks out in the barracks room when Rader (Van Heflin) antagonizes some of the other cadets by reading aloud one of John Brown's pamphlets.

We start with the senior class of cadets at West Point, only a few weeks before their graduation. There is plenty of story in this film to hold the viewer's interest. The Indian squaw's prophesy to the group of friends and West Point graduates (starting at about 1:18) that they would 'all be famous men, great in battle, but bitter enemies' sent a little chill up my spine (especially when they all laughed it up at her forecasts).

Maybe I'm a sucker for such things, ) but I think they did it right in this film, without laying it on too thickly or making it hokey. Though they never used that phrase in the film, they managed to maintain an atmosphere of prophesy and portents that worked for me. That's what Herman Melville called John Brown.

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