Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark and Cameron Mitchell portray three somewhat disreputable 19th-century soldiers of fortune, en route to California to prospect for gold. Stopping over in a tiny Mexican village, the three men are hired by Susan Hayward to rescue her husband, who is trapped in a gold mine in hostile Indian territory. The threesome agree to the expedition, their interest piqued by the possibility of picking up some gold themselves.

• Henry Hathaway
• Gary Cooper
• Susan Hayward
• Richard Widmark
• Hugh Marlowe
• Cameron Mitchell
• Rita Moreno
• Víctor Manuel Mendoza
• Charles Brackett
• Saul Wurtzel
• Garden of evil