While on safari in an unexplored area of Africa, Trader Horn and Peru find missionary Edith Trent killed by natives. They decide to carry on her quest for her lost daughter Nina. They find her as the queen of a particularly savage tribe, and try to bring her back to civilization.
From IMDB: Hard, withdrawn city cop Jim Wilson roughs up one too many suspects and is sent upstate to help investigate the murder of a young girl in the winter countryside. There he meets Mary Malden, whom he finds attractive and independent. However, Mary's brother is chief suspect in the killing. And Mary herself is blind.
曾参加过美国内战的退伍老兵埃森·爱德华兹（约翰·韦恩 John Wayne 饰）战争结束后返回家乡德克萨斯州，来到哥哥的农场希望与亲人重聚团圆。埃森一直暗恋着自己的嫂子，只把这份感情放在心底。然而一场科曼奇族的突袭，让埃森的心愿彻底粉碎。在这次印地安人的袭击中，埃森的哥嫂双双被杀，侄女黛比（娜塔利·伍德 Natalie Wood 饰）被掠，生死未卜。
为了给自己心爱的嫂子复仇，也为了找到黛比的下落，埃森在哥哥养子马丁（杰弗里·亨特 Jeffrey Hunter 饰）的陪伴下，开始了艰难的搜寻岁月。埃森不惜耗时五年和花费千元赏金来寻找酋长斯卡的下落，然而埃森对印第安人彻骨的仇恨和几近疯狂的举动，让马丁开始怀疑叔叔搜索黛比的真正原因，马丁甚至担心，埃森会杀死已被印第安人同化的黛比。
