While tailing a murder suspect, private detective Frazee follows the suspect into a poker game. When one of the players reveals he knows the location of a lost wagon train full of gold, everyone in the game is suddenly bound up in an expedition into the desert to find the treasure. But heat, sand, wind, and the revelation of personal secrets combine to threaten not only the tre...
Marion Warner inherits a piece of land in the New Mexico desert and arrives to determine her best course of action with the property. She is initially determined to have the Navaho Indians who are living on the land run off, but encounters stiff resistance from local high-roller Morgan and his toady Blucher. Marion meets Morgan's enemy, Blandy, a Navaho with an education and a ...
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mou...
曾参加过美国内战的退伍老兵埃森·爱德华兹（约翰·韦恩 John Wayne 饰）战争结束后返回家乡德克萨斯州，来到哥哥的农场希望与亲人重聚团圆。埃森一直暗恋着自己的嫂子，只把这份感情放在心底。然而一场科曼奇族的突袭，让埃森的心愿彻底粉碎。在这次印地安人的袭击中，埃森的哥嫂双双被杀，侄女黛比（娜塔利·伍德 Natalie Wood 饰）被掠，生死未卜。
为了给自己心爱的嫂子复仇，也为了找到黛比的下落，埃森在哥哥养子马丁（杰弗里·亨特 Jeffrey Hunter 饰）的陪伴下，开始了艰难的搜寻岁月。埃森不惜耗时五年和花费千元赏金来寻找酋长斯卡的下落，然而埃森对印第安人彻骨的仇恨和几近疯狂的举动，让马丁开始怀疑叔叔搜索黛比的真正原因，马丁甚至担心，埃森会杀死已被印第安人同化的黛比。
