Glory Guys, The (Full Frame)

VHS, 112 minutes, MGM

It would be their first mission - and perhaps their last. From the pen of legendary Western filmmaker Sam Peckinpah comes a lusty, take-no-prisoners, frontier adventure, starring Tom Tryon, Harve Presnell, Senta Berger, James Caan and Slin Pickens. Their orders are clear- every regiment in the territory is to join together and force the Sioux to newly designated reservations. The Third Cavalry's General Frederick McGabe (Andrew Duggan), however, has other ideas. A vicious Indian hater, he decides to annihilate the Sioux as a personal "victory" to hang on his chest. To achieve his aim, the glory mad McGabe intends to sacrifice an entire company of his men in a suicide diversion. Led by Captain Demas Harrod (Tryon) and chief of Scouts Sol Rogers (Presnell), these ragtag soldiers embark on their first - and perhaps last - mission trusting neither luck nor fate to get them through their date with destiny...and the bloody battle that lies ahead. Directed by Arnold Laven, "The Glory Guys" is an epic, action-packed saga of the U.S. Cavalry and "one of the most impressive Westerns to hit the screen in a long time" (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner).