In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Native wife, and a housewife abandons her husband to rejoin her Apache lover's tribe.

James Garner
as Jess Remsberg

Sidney Poitier
as Toller

Bill Travers
as Scotty McAllister

Bibi Andersson
as Ellen Grange

Dennis Weaver
as Willard Grange

William Redfield
as Sgt. Ferguson

John Hoyt
as Chata

John Crawford
as Clay Dean

Ralph Nelson
as Col. Foster

John Hubbard
as Maj. Novak