It's the United States Army vs the Seminole Indians fighting it out in the Florida swamps. The director is cult filmmaker Budd Boetticher although you would find it pretty hard to believe he has a describable style based on this by the book studio production.
Rock Hudson in one of his many Universal Studios films is the Army officer who wants to live in peace with the Seminoles. Richard Carlson is his superior who is one of those crazy martinet officers like Henry Fonda in Fort Apache who just wants to kill all the Indians. Anthony Quinn is the leader of the Seminoles, Barbara Hale is the love interest stuck in a silly love triangle between Quinn and Hudson. You get the picture. Did I mention that Lee Marvin turns up in a small part with black hair no less?
The film is a fairly sympathetic portrayal of Native Americans which was somewhat rare for a western in this time period. The action scenes are not that bad but for the most part this is pretty standard stuff. At least it's short.
87 minutes.
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