Little Big Horn (also known as The Fighting Seventh) is a 1951 American Western film written and directed by Charles Marquis Warren starring Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland and Marie Windsor.

[3] Captain Phillip Donlin (Lloyd Bridges) and his small troop must rush to reach Little Big Horn in order to warn Lt.

The film was called The Black Hills and was to be produced by Joseph Kane and star Rod Cameron.

[12] Writing in The Nation, film critic Manny Farber calls Little Big Horn “a tough-minded, unconventional, persuasive look” at the events surrounding Lt.

Colonel George Armstrong Custer's defeat at the hands of the Soiux and Cheyenne under Sitting Bull in 1876.