A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local garrison to fight the indians.

Joseph Cotten
as Col. Clay Tucker

Linda Darnell
as Elena Kenniston

Jeff Chandler
as Maj. Henry Kenniston

Cornel Wilde
as Capt. Mark Bradford

Dale Robertson
as Lem

Jay C. Flippen
as Sgt. Terrance Duey

Noah Beery Jr.
as Cy Davis (as Noah Beery)

Johnny Sands
as Lt. Adams (as John Sands)

Arthur Hunnicutt
as Sgt. Pickens

Harry von Zell
as Ephraim Strong
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"Col. Tucker" (Joseph Cotton) is the Confederate officer who is offered a chance to re-enlist in the US Army after the end of the US Civil war and so he and his men accept - so long as they never have to bear arms against their former colleagues. Now reduced to a Lieutenant, off to the remote and di...