Actor(s)
John Wayne
Joanne Dru
John Agar
Ben Johnson
Harry Carey Jr.
Victor McLaglen
Mildred Natwick
A masterpiece of mood and heroics, this second film in director John Ford's renowned cavalry trilogy (Fort Apache and Rio Grande are the others) features one of John Wayne's most moving performances as a cavalry officer in his final week of service on the frontier. Under makeup aging him some 20 years, he inhabits the role of a wily veteran who knows the sting of war and vows to make his last miss