Branded (TV Series)

Call to Glory: Part 1 (1966)

Robert Lansing: General George Armstrong Custer

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• General George Armstrong Custer : What happened to your face? Fall off your horse?

• General George Armstrong Custer : I'll meet you at 6 o'clock for a short one at the Bachelors' Officers' Tavern.

  Jason McCord : I'm not an officer.

  General George Armstrong Custer : It's all right, Jason, I'm not a bachelor.

• General George Armstrong Custer : You look as homeless as a poker chip, Jason.

• General George Armstrong Custer : Mr President, you sound as though we're talking about children, these are the survivors of the Stone Age, they're savages, they're 25,000 years behind our civilisation.

  President Ulysses S. Grant : Is that any reason for us to act like savages?

  General George Armstrong Custer : Us? Mr President, the word Sioux means cutthroat, chop off heads. The Cheyenne symbol is cut off arms and collect human limbs. The Oglala Chief Crazy Horse wears a symbol of a bloody hand on the front of his jacket.

• General George Armstrong Custer : [Custer leads the singing in a version of Garryowen, originally an Irish drinking song, and adopted by the 7th Cavalry]  We are the pride of the Army, a regiment of great renown, our name's on the pages of history from '66 on down. We are the pride of the Army, a regiment of great renown, our name's on the pages of history from '66 on down. We'll break windows, we'll break doors, the watch knock down by threes and fours, and let the doctors work their cures, and tinker up our bruised.