Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him.

Glenn Ford
as Col. Owen Devereaux

William Holden
as Capt. Del Stewart

Ellen Drew
as Caroline Emmet

Ray Collins
as Big Ed Carter

Edgar Buchanan
as Doc Merriam

Jerome Courtland
as Johnny Howard

James Millican
as Sgt. Jericho Howard

Jim Bannon
as Nagel

William Phillips
as York

David Clarke
as Mutton McGuire
John Chard
War can do strange things to a man. The end of the Civil War is nigh and one last pocket of Confederate resistance is holed up at Jacob's Gorge. Knowing their time is up they hoist the white flag in surrender. Union Colonel Owen Devereaux sees the white flag but orders the attack anyway. Returnin...