Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protégé.

• United Artists
• Monterey Productions
• John Wayne
• Montgomery Clift
• Joanne Dru
• Walter Brennan
• Coleen Gray
• Harry Carey
• John Ireland
• Noah Beery Jr.