A cavalry officer has to avoid showing preferential treatment when the son he has not seen for 15 years is posted to his fort as a cadet. His estranged wife also turns up wanting to take the boy away, but he is forced to put duty before his family when called on to rescue children kidnapped by Apaches on the Mexican border. John Ford's Western, with John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson and J Carrol Naish