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From Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Horgan's epic novel of Indians and Indian-fighters
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In 1883, US Cavalry lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from West Point, is assigned to isolated Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona, where he meets commanding officer Teddy Mainwarring's wife Kitty, whom he later rescues from an Indian attack.
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Directed by: Raoul Walsh, William H. Clothier
Produced by: William H. Wright
Composed by: Max Steiner
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Troy Donahue
2nd Lt. Matthew 'Matt' Hazard

Suzanne Pleshette
Mrs. Kitty Mainwarring

Diane McBain
Laura Frelief

James Gregory
Maj. Gen. Alexander Upton Quaint

William Reynolds
1st Lt. Teddy Mainwarring

Claude Akins
Seely Jones

Kent Smith
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Bartlett Robinson
Major Hiram Prescott

Mary Patton
Jessica Prescott

Larry Ward
Sgt. Kroger
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