A cavalry officer is assigned to a fort on the Mexican border, where he resolves to whip the undisciplined recruits into shape. He is soon tempted away from his fiancee by his commanding officer's wife and also has to resolve the conflict with a rebellious Native American chief. Western, starring Troy Donahue and Suzanne Pleshette.

In 1883, US Cavalry lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from West Point, is assigned to isolated Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona, where he meets commanding officer Teddy Mainwarring's wife Kitty, whom he later rescues from an Indian attack.