Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

ma-cortes ¨Son of the morning star¨ deals with the exciting life of George Armstrong Custer that comes alive in this made for television movie formed by 2 episodes in an above average mini-series . The story of the stubborn George Custer (Gary Cole) , Crazy Horse and the events prior to the battle of the Little Bighorn (1876) , told from the diverse perspectives of two women , both , the Custer's wife , Libby (Rosanna Arquette) , and a young Indian . And following a parallel as well as opposite story of the life of Native American inspirational hero Crazy Horse (Rodney A. Grant) . This is a pretty good movie , and it calls out for being one of the more accurate films based on this famous role . In addition , appearing known historical characters as President Ulysses S. Grant/Stanley Anderson , General Sherman/George Dickerson , Gen. Philip Sheridan/Dean Stockwell and Indians as Crazy Horse/Rodney A. Grant , Sitting Bull/Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman and Red Cloud/Nick Ramus .This moving mini-series blends impressive battles , good action scenes , shootouts , go riding , politics , stirring Indian charges and many other things . The film centers about the vain , obstinate , and ambitious general Custer and wife , though takes liberties with historical facts . Headstrong George Armstrong Custer's complex characterization with an unusual point of view is well performed by Gary Cole who gives a nice embodiment of this Western hero . Opposing points of view on the same events by narrators speaking from different perspectives . And developing really two lives that will intertwine and culminate with the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 1876 where Custer was exterminated with his entire command . Exciting final confrontation between Custer army and Indians is spellbound and breathtaking . The motion picture will appeal to biopic enthusiasts and Indian/cavalry western buffs. The film is a fiction , but based on real events . George Armstrong Custer's career begins when is graduated in the known Military Academy of West Point and after that , he intervened in American Civil War where detaches in battle of Gettysburg . General Sheridan assigns him the command a regiment at Fort Abraham Lincoln . As it follows his Post-Civil War career (1866-1876) on the Great Plains and a recreation of the known ¨Fetterman massacre¨ . In 1869 Custer and his 7th Cavalry carried out the ¨massacre of River Washita¨ where one hundred Indians and their chief Black Kettle were murdered . Problems enhanced when the Commissioner of Indian Affairs directed all Sioux bands to enter reservations by the end of January 1876 or be declared hostile . Many bands of Sioux did not meet this deadline and were attacked by US troops . Crazy Horse and his Oglala people moved north to join forces with Sitting Bull , by the spring of 1876 some 3000 Teton Sioux and Northern Cheyenne warriors had assembled at Sitting Bull's camp in the valley of the Little Big Horn in Montana . On 25 June 1876 Crazy Horse and other war chiefs led the allied warriors against General Custer and his seventh Cavalry , Custer and all the man under his direct command were killed . This victory , however , brought relentless retaliation from the army and Sioux were scattered . Sitting Bull and his followers fled to Canada and stayed there until July 1881 , when he returned to the US and surrendered at Fort Buford , Montana . After he was placed on a South Dakota reservation , though for a year Sitting Bull went a tour with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and continued to regard himself as chief of his people . Crazy Horse was also detained and subsequently murdered . Finally , Indians were really slaughtered at the ¨Wounded Knee massacre¨. Other adaptations about this historic character culminating in the thrilling battle of ¨Little Big Horn¨ are the followings : the best ¨They died with the boots on (1941) ¨ with Errol Flynn and directed by Raoul Walsh ; ¨Santa Fe trail¨ by Michael Curtiz with Ronald Reagan as Custer ; ¨Great massacre Sioux¨ by Sidney Salkow with Philip Carey as Custer and Iron Eyes Cody as Crazy Horse ; ¨Little Big Man¨ by Arthur Penn with Richard Mulligan as Custer ; ¨Custer of the west¨ by Robert Siodmak with Robert Shaw , Mary Ure and this TV miniseries by Mike Robe with Gary Cole.

Per Johnsen After watching this epic of the so called Battle of the Little Bighorn for the fourth time, I still think this is the film about the event closer to the truth. Better and more accurate than the other films about it put together, even it still much is a Hollywood drama. Althoug this is more of a biographic view of who the person G.A.Custer was, it's good because it gives a comprehensive, duplex and much more objective look on one of the most famous events in American history than other cinematic efforts. Much because the narrator is a Lakota woman,read by Buffy Saint Marie. Still it might would appear more credible if the Lakota woman described it as the Greasy Grass and not Little Bighorn. Perhaps also using Lakota language names on the native leaders would have worked better. I have always missed that actors in epic historical dramas look more like the person they portray. Gary Cole is not the actor I would cast for the Custer role, neither due to his looks or acting performance. On the other hand, Rodney A. Grant as Crazy Horse and in particular Nick Ramus in the small but important part as Red Cloud are as good at they can get. Althoug no picture of Crazy Horse exists, I believe in Grant's appearance, and it's also the first time his cheek wound and the story behind really comes to light. To find anyone with something close to the charisma and looks of Sitting Bull might just be impossible. Aside of that, Wes Studi and not Gordon Tootoosis getting to portray Geronimo in 1993 is more of a mystery. This is so far still the closest anyone did get to describing the Battle of the Little Bighorn in a sincere and objective way, though it may be far from a perfect portrait of the actual main character,George Armstrong Custer.

LeonLouisRicci By all accounts this is the most accurate of the screen adaptations of the famous General Custer and his last stand. It is definitely one of the better TV Movies to date at the time of its release. The attention to detail and the balanced screenplay are impressive as is the depth of the story with a good deal of political procedures and insights of Washington D.C. at the time. Manifest Destiny is defined in an unrestrained utterance by President Grant. It is basically "my way or the highway" to use a modern alliteration. It has a rich and thoughtful look and has more production values than television usually presented. The film covers a ten year period and makes some use of Custer's Civil War record and earlier campaigns to present us with a foundation and lets us in on the major mistakes and flaws as well as virtues in this military man's career.The performances are very good with David Strathairn and Rosanna Arquette standing out. Gary Cole is adequate and is held up by the surroundings, script, and substance. The voice-over narration ties some things together and the battle at Little Bighorn is impressive and a fine finale that displays an engaging feeling of the event in both the location and the personnel.

Quinn-5 "Son Of The Morning Star" is by all accounts and definitions an epic. With a period backdrop, compelling characters, a cast of thousands and a span of ten years, "Morning Star" fits the mold of almost every made-for-tv-mini series. Yet you can't help but feel it's being confined on the small screen like a belt that's too tight on you. It has the look and feel of a theatrical feature, and would seem so much bigger on the big screen. But Mike Robe's gigantic effort is no movie of the week basic network fodder. It's the post-Civil War story of General George Armstrong Custer, his lovely and loyal wife Libbie, and Custer's Indian equivalent Crazy Horse, and the interesting chain of events that lead the two warriors to the gentle slopes of the Little Big Horn, or, more popularly, Custer's Last Stand. But, as the Indian female narrator Kate Bighead tells us, "it was not [Custer's] last stand...it was ours". The first half of the film seems somewhat confused of its real direction, and it's pretty much the movies only flaw. We meet the characters, soak in the rich setting of the western plains of our country, and are led through such happenings as Custer's court martialing for his harsh treatment on deserters, the training of his 7th cavalry, the somewhat flawed presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, who, apparently, is quite the anti-Custer, and to a lesser extent to all of this, the early days of the Cheyenne warrior Crazy Horse, played by underrated Native American actor Rodney A. Grant (Wind In His Hair from "Dances With Wolves", which is what I believe ultimatly helped greenlight this production). But besides that jumbled storyline, which really isn't all that jumbled, there are first rate acting scenes displayed by Gary Cole as our arrogant blond hero, who seems to really know his stuff when it comes to first person impressions. Rosanna Arquette is just going through the motions, and so is Dean Stockwell as Custer's superior in Washington, General Sheridan. But the real reward for sticking through this movie is the heart-wrenching climax of all movie climaxes, the Battle of Little Big Horn. Custer's actual Last Stand isn't until the final half hour, but boy is it worth the wait. Mike Robe really deserves some, heck, A LOT of credit for this logistical nightmare of a production. He takes us through Custer's final moments with true skill and utter authority. Combined with the poetic and professional lens job done by director of photography Kees Van Oostrum, and a lush orchestral score by Craig Safan, "Son Of The Morning Star" is a real piece of work, and should be considered a genuine cinematic triumph in the annals of western and dramatic film. Kudos, guys.