The Glory Guys is a 1965 American Western Panavision film directed by Arnold Laven and written by Sam Peckinpah based on the 1956 novel The Dice of God by Hoffman Birney.
Produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven and released by United Artists, the film stars Tom Tryon, Harve Presnell, Senta Berger, James Caan and Michael Anderson Jr. Two cavalry soldiers under the command of a tough general fight Plains Indians and fall for the same woman.
Producers Arthur Gardner, Arnold Laven and Jules Levy sought an inexperienced, and therefore affordable, writer to adapt Hoffman Birney's book The Dice of God into a screenplay.
[6] In a contemporary review, critic Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times called the film "pretty much par for the course" and containing "... all the backing and filling and ground-pawing with which an unhappy tradition insists on killing the first hour before we finally mount up and ride out to meet the hostiles."
However, Scheuer praised the cinematography: "Producers Levy-Gardner-Laven have made a fairly modest budget stretch into the high, wide and handsome, thanks largely to the panoramic camera focused on the infinite as well as infinity by the resourceful James Wong Howe.