WAR PAINT.

The pre-credit sequence of the film starts out with the last survivor of his US Cavalry escort shot and scalped by Taslik (Keith Larsen) and his squaw Wanima (Joan Taylor) The film proper begins with Lt. Billings (Robert Stack) leading his patrol, that has escorted Cpl Hamilton (Charles Nolte), a cartographer who has been making maps of the area. The patrol have nine days to get the treaty to the chief of the local tribe.