victor mature and a a barely civilize and mostly out of control mountain man and trapper and may be on the poster and but robert preston a a fail union colonel who lead his men to get cut to ribbon by confederate artillery at shiloh and and be send to a fort in oregon for his incompetence and have the most interesting part and marry to a young and hard to recognize at first anne bancroft . the uncivilized mature lust for the colonel wife and give the film an interesting and even dark subplot which go so far a to reference covet another man wife at one point by james whitmore who play mature old and wise mountain man father figure . direct by anthony mann and this film be lose among his more famous western with james stewart and but even so you really do not need the indian menace to make this a film worth see and although preston get to prove his bad judgement a a commanding officer again in a failed expedition to finally bring the indian under submission and in a well stag attack among the forest that quickly turn into a rout .