Warpath is a 1951 American Western film directed by Byron Haskin and starring Edmond O'Brien, Polly Bergen, Dean Jagger, Forrest Tucker and Harry Carey Jr.

En route to the upper western Dakota Territory (now North Dakota), where Vickers plans to reenlist in the Army as a buck private recruit, then join the men under the command of General George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876), (James Millican), at Fort Abraham Lincoln, to continue his search in the ranks of the Army cavalry, he sees a sergeant named O'Hara (Forrest Tucker) physically manhandling an attractive young woman.

Vickers is recognized by General Custer as a former Union Army officer from his Civil War days a decade before and is promoted to first sergeant.

O'Hara is a prisoner too, and when he learns Custer's troops of men will be hopelessly outnumbered and trapped on two sides of separate bands of thousands of warriors and probably slaughtered, despite his earlier crimes and desertion, he tries to go warn the general and sacrifices his own life running through a gauntlet line in the village, distracting the Sioux until the others led by Vickers can escape.

After Molly and her father Sam with Vickers grab some unguarded horses behind their tent and rideM off , then a distance further off, hide from the Indians until daylight.