Not all savages paint their faces and wear eagle feathers.

Similar in theme but not as good as John Ford’s Stagecoach, where the journey leads to redemption for its flawed characters (…). A band of Cheyenne attack and the disparate group is trapped without water in the desert, and must learn to work together to fight off their common enemy. The only survivors turn out to be the two bad apples, but they both go through a change of heart and are redeemed by this experience (…). Though the message film seems simplistic, nevertheless the characters were richly worked out making the routine story more invigorating than the usual oater. — Dennis Schwartz