The stars are John Lund as United States Army Maj. Colton and Jeff Chandler (in brownface) repeating the role of Apache chief Cochise, whom he had played two years earlier in 20th Century Fox's Broken Arrow.

The film is a highly fictionalized account combining the events of "The Bascom Affair" of 1861 and the "Battle of Apache Pass" of 1862, the first time that Native Americans met modern (for the age) artillery.

When confronted by Colton and Baylor, Cochise calls a council of Apache elders and they vote to banish Geronimo, who must also give up one of his stagecoach captives, schoolteacher Mary (Beverly Tyler).

[4] Parts of the film were shot in Professor Valley, Ida Gulch, Courthouse Wash, Arches National Park, Colorado River, and Sand Flats in Utah.

The Motion Picture Guide assigns it 2 stars (out of 5), describing it as "[n]ot the greatest western ever made, but interesting for its portrayal of Indians as rational human beings able to cooperate with the white man".