Audie Murphy is Captain Coburn. A cavalry officer who has been tasked to deliver a shipment of 40 rifles to a fort fighting off the Apaches who plan to kill the homesteaders.
Coburn is leading a band of misfits and he drives his men hard.
One of them, Corporal Bodine a former Confederate soldiers leads a mutiny. He steals the rifles and plans to sell them to the Apaches. He leaves Coburn for dead.
This is a lackluster and routine western made at a time when the western genre was being revised. Coburn is a man hard to sympathise with. He won't let his men rest or drink water during blazing hot days.
There is a subplot of Coburn's fiance's two brothers. One dies while trying to shoot at some Apaches. The other freezes and is accused of being a coward. He later attempts to redeem himself.
Coburn is leading a band of misfits and he drives his men hard.
One of them, Corporal Bodine a former Confederate soldiers leads a mutiny. He steals the rifles and plans to sell them to the Apaches. He leaves Coburn for dead.
This is a lackluster and routine western made at a time when the western genre was being revised. Coburn is a man hard to sympathise with. He won't let his men rest or drink water during blazing hot days.
There is a subplot of Coburn's fiance's two brothers. One dies while trying to shoot at some Apaches. The other freezes and is accused of being a coward. He later attempts to redeem himself.