Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protégé.
- Genre: Western
- Studio: United Artists, Monterey Productions, Charles K. Feldman Group
- Keyword: texas, kansas, usa, cattle drive, revenge, black and white, cattle, adopted child, cattle empire, 1850s
- Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Coleen Gray, Harry Carey