When Peck, an Indian scout, retires to a farm in New Mexico he takes pity on a white woman and her 'half-breed' son recently rescued from Indians, and invites them to join him. The Apache father kidnaps the boy, and Peck and the mother track them to save the boy.
Robert Mulligan was the only American filmmaker to wade into such painfully vexing and frightfully bourgeois territory, and come out with a truly great film.
