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“Gary Cooper is wonderful” (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner) alongside Andrea Leeds and screen legend David Niven in this epic-scale thriller that delivers “excellent action scenes (Leonard Maltin) and is “exciting as all hell” (New York World-Telegram); In the wake of the Spanish-American war; military doctor Bill Canavan (Cooper) arrives at a war-torn Filipino outpost; Infected with cholera and under attack from a vicious local Moro chieftain; the troops are terrified and their commanding officer has all but given up hope; Outnumbered and out of supplies; Canavan decides to trade his scalpel for a rifle and rally the few remaining troops into one last stand before the outpost and everyone inside become just another footnote in history!