A young cavalry officer is assigned the job of bringing in a band of Apaches who have been terrorizing the countryside.
Acting
Murphy's quiet exhaustion—man saw real combat, brings gravity to B-pictures.
Direction
Witney's second unit precision: clear geography, coherent action, rare for '64.
Director
William Witney
Audie Murphy
Capt. Jeff Stanton
Michael Dante
Red Hawk
Linda Lawson
Dawn Gillis
L.Q. Jones
Mike Greer
Ken Lynch
Hodges
Joseph Vitale
Victorio (as Joseph A. Vitale)
Robert Brubaker
Sgt. Cobb
Eugene Iglesias
Cpl. Ramirez
J. Pat O'Malley
Capt. Thatcher
John Archer
Col. Nathan Perry
Charles Watts
Owens
Howard Wright
Indian Agent Thompson
Peter Hansen
Capt. Green
Robert Karnes
George, the Sheriff
Hugh Sanders
Arizona Delegate
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Murphy was the most decorated American soldier of WWII; his war trauma made him seek isolation on remote film sets.
1964 saw Hollywood's last gasp of pro-cavalry Westerns before the genre flipped entirely to 'soldiers are monsters' post-Vietnam.
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