Gary Cooper is wonderful (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner) alongside Andrea Leeds and screen legend David Niven in this epic-scale thriller that delivers excellent action scenes (Leonard Maltin) and is exciting as all hell (New York World-Telegram). In the wake of the Spanish-American war, military doctor Bill Canavan (Cooper) arrives at a war-torn Filipino outpost. Infected with cholera and under attack from a vicious local Moro chieftain, the troops are terrified and their commanding officer has all but given up hope. Outnumbered and out of supplies, Canavan decides to trade his scalpel for a rifle and rally the few remaining troops into one last stand before the outpost and everyone inside become just another footnote in history.