The film stars Baynes Barron and Michael Bell and is narrated by Audie Murphy.

The film ran in Japan and West Germany in late 1961, sometimes titled War Hero.

Its release in the US was delayed, with some of the cast and crew suspecting that distributors were put off by the depiction of an American war criminal.

[1] It was finally released in 1963, with Audie Murphy's narration added to soften the film's message,[1] and distributed by United Artists the next year on a double bill below the James Bond film From Russia with Love.

However, its artistic aspects have been overshadowed by the coincidence that it was playing (along with Cry of Battle) at the Texas Theatre in Dallas the afternoon of November 22, 1963, when Lee Harvey Oswald hid there after allegedly shooting President John F. Kennedy and police officer J. D. Tippit.