Wissenswertes

Throughout the movie the name of Custer's subordinate is incorrectly being pronounced as "Benton" when his name actually "Benteen"

There was a post indicating that the battle took place in 1875, when in fact the battle occurred on June 25, 1876.

Location scenes filmed in Tucson, Arizona.

The screenplay by Sidney Salkow and Marvin A. Gluck was credited as "Fred C. Dobbs", the name of Humphrey Bogart's character in Der Schatz der Sierra Madre (1948) and then the name of a nightclub on Sunset Strip.

Sidney Salkow, who'd actually previously told the story from the other perspective with the United Artists-distributed indie Das letzte Gefecht (1954). Entscheidung am Big Horn (1965) used extensive action sequences from Sidney Salkow's Sitting Bull (1954).