Anthony Mann directs this 1950s war drama starring Robert Ryan. During the Korean War, when their truck breaks down, Lieutenant Benson (Ryan) and his troops find themselves behind enemy lines with no way of contacting their headquarters. In order to survive their dangerous march to safety, Benson and Sergeant Montana (Aldo Ray) have no choice but to work alongside each other, despite their differences.

John Wayne went against the tide of public opinion to both direct and star in a war epic that seeks to justify America's involvement in Vietnam. A commander (Wayne) is sent onto the battlefield to lead a regiment on a mission to kidnap a Vietcong general. As events unfold, a pacifist journalist (David Janssen) covering the sorti is gradually persuaded to accept the justness of the war.