Audie Murphy was always well cast as a little guy who people picked on for stuff that wasn't his fault - here he's a wagon train guard falsely accused of abandoning his post shortly before a tribe of Indians attacked and killed all the men, leaving only two women. One of them, the pretty but bland Universal starlet Lori Nelson, has a yen for Audie but her newly-widowed sister wants her to marry rich Russell Johnson (who, like Nelson, made a couple of films with Nelson).
The opening sequences are exciting as Indian massacres almost always are in Westerns, it's not a bad story, and the direction does some interesting things capturing the desolation of the West (wind swept plains, clambering over rocks, that sort of thing). It seems to lack something - an extra subplot, or maybe just a better female lead - to stop it from being one of Murphy's better movies.
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