Son of the Morning Star (film)
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| Written by |
Evan S. Connell (book) Melissa Mathison |
| Directed by | Mike Robe |
| Starring | Gary Cole |
| Music by | Craig Safan |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) |
Preston Fischer (producer) Thom Mount (producer) Benjamin A. Weissman (associate producer) Cyrus Yavneh(producer) |
| Cinematography | Kees Van Oostrum |
| Editor(s) | Benjamin A. Weissman |
| Running time | 187 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Preston Stephen Fischer Company Republic Television The Mount Company |
| Distributor | ABC |
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| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | February 3, 1991 |
Son of the Morning Star is a 1991 American two-part television miniseries released by Chrysalis based on Evan S. Connell's best-selling book of the same name. It starred Gary Cole (General Custer) and featured (General Philip Sheridan), Rosanna Arquette (Elizabeth Custer), Rodney A. Grant (Crazy Horse), Nick Ramus (Red Cloud), Buffy Sainte-Marie (voice of Kate Bighead), and Floyd Red Crow Westerman (Sitting Bull).
The film, in two parts, begins in 1876 when the Terry-Gibbon column relieves the remnants of the 7th Cavalry that had survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn. They discover Custer's battalion has been annihilated, and the film 'flashes back' and tells Custer's story from the point of view/narrative of his wife, Elizabeth, beginning with the Kansas campaign of the mid-1860s.
Concurrently, the Indian perspective is told through the narrative of Kate Bighead, a young Cheyenne woman, who encountered Custer on several occasions. Kate Bighead's narrative is also used to describe events like the Fetterman Massacre and the Battle of Washita River, as is Elizabeth Custer's, to provide a balanced point of view.
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