Three Union POWs fleeing across the desert to escape both their Confederate pursuers and rampaging Apaches come across a dying woman and her infant child. They promise the woman that they will take care of the child and get it to safety, even though none of them knows anything whatsoever about children or babies.
Jack Palance
as Rourke
Jack Warden
as Sgt. Dobbs
Keith Carradine
as Lt. Lewis
Ed Lauter
as Crees
José Pérez
as Sanchez
Bill McKinney
as Cpl. Crawley
Jesse Vint
as Loftus
Fionnula Flanagan
as Virginia
John Quade
as Denton
Neil Brooks Cunningham
as William
Ed Bakey
as Shaw
Kermit Murdock
as Nathaniel Mony
