The Glory Guys

The Glory Guys

Directed by Arnold Laven
Written by Sam Peckinpah
Starring Tom Tryon
Harve Presnell
Senta Berger
James Caan
Michael Anderson, Jr.
Music by Riz Ortolani
Cinematography James Wong Howe
Edited by Tom Rolf
Distributed by United Artists
Levy-Gardner-Laven
Release dates
  • 1965 (1965)
Country United States
Language English

The Glory Guys is a 1965 American film based on the novel The Dice of God by Hoffman Birney. Filmed by Levy-Gardner-Laven and released by United Artists, it stars Tom Tryon, Harve Presnell, Senta Berger, James Caan, and Michael Anderson, Jr. The film's screenplay was written by Sam Peckinpah long before the 1965 film was made. The director was Arnold Laven. Riz Ortolani composed the score and the title song.

Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a generic war story covering the enlistment, training, and operational deployment of a group of recruits that could take place in any time period.

The large-scale film was made in Durango, Mexico, with large numbers of mounted extras and the final battle scene choreographed on 20,000 acres (81 km2) of land.[1]

The titles were drawn by Joseph Mugnaini for Format Productions. Cover versions of the title song were done by Al Caiola and sung by Frankie Laine.

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