---
title: 'The Great Sioux Massacre (1965)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Sidney Salkow'
released: '1965-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 91
genres:
  - 'Western'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-great-sioux-massacre-1965'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059244/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Great Sioux Massacre (1965)

1965 · 91 min · Western · United States


## Synopsis

The Great Sioux Massacre is a 1965 American Western war film directed by Sidney Salkow in CinemaScope using extensive action sequences from Salkow's 1954 Sitting Bull. In a fictionalized form, it depicts Custer's descent from a defender of the Indians from federal interference to an incompetent warmonger, and the Indians as his victims, and covers events leading up to the Battle of the Little Bighorn and Custer's Last Stand.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Sidney Salkow](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidney-salkow)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Emil Newman](https://cinepixo.com/people/emil-newman)
- **Editor:** [William Austin](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-austin)

## Cast

- [Don Haggerty](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-haggerty)
- [Darren McGavin](https://cinepixo.com/people/darren-mcgavin)
- [John Napier](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-napier)
- [William Tannen](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-tannen)
- [Philip Carey](https://cinepixo.com/people/philip-carey)
- [Julie Sommars](https://cinepixo.com/people/julie-sommars)
- [Nancy Kovack](https://cinepixo.com/people/nancy-kovack)
- [Frank Ferguson](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-ferguson)
- [Michael Pate](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-pate)
- [Joseph Cotten](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-cotten)

## Criticism on CinePixo

No reviews published yet.

Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-great-sioux-massacre-1965
Film facts: Wikidata (Q7737936); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.