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.

• Alan Neuman Productions
• Jack Palance
• Jack Warden
• Keith Carradine
• Ed Lauter
• José Pérez
• Bill McKinney
• Jesse Vint
• Fionnula Flanagan