A good-looking Anthony Mann cavalry western shot in Mexico, with the emphasis on personal tensions, but unusually starring a smiling, macho Victor Mature rather than a thoughtful James Stewart.
Playing husband and wife are two stars then treading water. As the neurotic husband Robert Preston has just lost the moustache and wears a military crew cut in his final film role before hitting it big on Broadway in 'The Music Man'. As his wife, Anne Bancroft is also cast against type as a brittle blonde in a blouse rather than the exotic bloom she later matured into.
Playing husband and wife are two stars then treading water. As the neurotic husband Robert Preston has just lost the moustache and wears a military crew cut in his final film role before hitting it big on Broadway in 'The Music Man'. As his wife, Anne Bancroft is also cast against type as a brittle blonde in a blouse rather than the exotic bloom she later matured into.