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 Clay Tucker

Linda Darnell
as Elena Kenniston

Jeff Chandler
as Henry Kenniston

Cornel Wilde
as Mark Bradford

Dale Robertson
as Lem

Jay C. Flippen
as Terrance Duey

Noah Beery Jr.
as Cy Davis

Harry von Zell
as Ephraim Strong

Johnny Sands
as Lieutenant Adams

Arthur Hunnicutt
as Sergeant Pickens
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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...