Allen Seward (Robert Francis) is deployed to a western cavalry post where his predecessors were drunks and slackers. The post doesn't like him after he disregards restrictions and helps ailing Indians on the malaria-infested reserve. Indians leave the reservation to migrate to healthier higher terrain, and when they join the Comanches to besiege the fort, Seward is labeled a "woodhawk," the bird that turns on its own. Donna Reed is the post commander's niece, Phil Carey is a cavalry captain who believes the only good Indian is a dead Indian, and May Wynn (who debuted with Francis in "The Caine Mutiny") is a white girl reared by Indians and married to the chief's son. Francis made only two more films before his 1955 plane disaster.
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Allen Seward (Robert Francis) is deployed to a western cavalry post where his predecessors were drunks and slackers. The post doesn't like him after he disregards restrictions and helps ailing Indians on the malaria-infested reserve. Indians leave the reservation to migrate to healthier higher terrain, and when they join the Comanches to besiege the fort, Seward is labeled a "woodhawk," the bird that turns on its own. Donna Reed is the post commander's niece, Phil Carey is a cavalry captain who believes the only good Indian is a dead Indian, and May Wynn (who debuted with Francis in "The Caine Mutiny") is a white girl reared by Indians and married to the chief's son. Francis made only two more films before his 1955 plane disaster.
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