John Wayne's Rio Grande, which marks its 74th anniversary this week, saw cast members killed, and their bodies never ...

A post-Civil War Union officer's post is on the Texas-Mexican border, where his estranged son is assigned to his regiment; and the officer shows no favoritism to the underaged recruit.

Besieged colonel John Wayne battles Apache raiders, but his hardest fight is with his own son. Strong western; a fitting finale to John Ford's legendary Cavalry trilogy.