“Jack Crabb is about 100 years old as the film begins. A collector of oral histories asks him about his past. He recounts being captured and raised by indians, becoming a gunslinger, marrying an indian, watching her killed by General George Armstrong Custer, and becoming a scout for him at Little Big Horn. “
Tagline: Either The Most Neglected Hero In History Or A Liar Of Insane Proportion!
Trivia: The role of Chief Old Lodge Skins was initially offered to Marlon Brando, who turned it down.
Goofs: Continuity: After Little Big Man is married to his first wife, Olga, and the two are moving out west, Indians attack the carriage they’re riding in. After Little Big Man makes his way to the front of the carriage, where one of the drivers has been shot, the body of the dead driver appears and disappears between shots.