During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader.

Henry Fonda
as Corporal Colin Spence

Maureen O'Hara
as Valentine Lee

Thomas Mitchell
as Sergeant Kelly

Allyn Joslyn
as Cassidy

Reginald Gardiner
as Tom Benedict

Melville Cooper
as Pilcher

Bramwell Fletcher
as Symes

Morton Lowry
as Cottrell

Peter Lawford
as Soldier

Bess Flowers
as Nightclub patron
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Henry Fonda is a bit of a fish out of water in rather thin wartime effort. He is "Spence", a Canadian sent to fight in North Africa during WWII. When his sergeant "Kelly" (a creditable effort from Thomas Mitchell) comes a cropper and their convoy destroyed, he must lead his men through the desert to...