Set in 1864, a renegade adventurer (William Holden) finds himself caught in the middle of the Civil War. With no loyalties to either side, he is on his way to deliver cattle to the Union army but is captured by a Confederate Colonel (Richard Widmark) who forcibly persuades him to deliver the cattle to the Confederate army. Directed by Edward Dmytryk (CROSSFIRE). Based on an actual incident referred to as the Beefsteak Raid of 1864. The film attempts to be even to both sides, the Union and the Confederacy but I detected a slight tip of the hat to the Confederacy. The movie's message that war is Hell and there are no winners is lost somewhere amid its inability to focus and the movie ends up as a slightly above average western that could have been stronger. With Janice Rule, Patrick O'Neal, Victoria Shaw, Arthur Franz and Richard Rust.
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