After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.
John Wayne
Colonel John Henry Thomas
Rock Hudson
Colonel James Langdon
Antonio Aguilar
General Rojas
Roman Gabriel
Blue Boy
Marian McCargo
Ann
Lee Meriwether
Margaret
Merlin Olsen
Little George
Melissa Newman
Charlotte
Bruce Cabot
Jeff Newby
Jan-Michael Vincent
Bubba Wilkes
Ben Johnson
Short Grub
Edward Faulkner
Anderson
Harry Carey, Jr.
Webster
Paul Fix
General Joe Masters
Royal Dano
Major Sanders
