A mysterious stranger stirs up trouble for a Texas ranching family by revealing that their adopted daughter was actually kidnapped from a Kiowa Native American tribe as a child. While the other farmers turn their backs on the family, and the Kiowa prepare to lay siege to their home, the three sons must decide where they stand. Western, starring Burt Lancaster, Audie Murphy, Doug McClure, Audrey Hepburn, Lillian Gish and John Saxon.

The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.