An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers's body after Little Big Horn.
Direction
Joseph Lewis squeezes tension from a B-picture budget.
Acting
Randolph Scott's granite jaw carries 75 minutes of wounded dignity.
Director
Joseph H. Lewis
Randolph Scott
Capt. Tom Benson
Barbara Hale
Martha Kellogg
Jay C. Flippen
Sgt. Bates
Frank Faylen
Sgt. Kruger
Jeanette Nolan
Charlotte Reynolds
Leo Gordon
Vogel
Denver Pyle
Dixon
Harry Carey, Jr.
Cpl. Morrison
Michael Pate
Capt. Benteen
Donald Curtis
Lt. Bob Fitch
Frank Wilcox
Maj. Reno
Pat Hogan
Young Hawk
Russell Hicks
Col. Kellogg
William Leslie
Lt. Murray
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Joseph Lewis, king of B-noirs like Gun Crazy, was slumming in Westerns for Columbia paychecks.
Released during the 1950s Western boom, this rode the coattails of Broken Arrow's brief 'sympathetic Indian' moment—then sprinted backward.
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