40,000 Horsemen

The Australian Light Horse regiment is dispatched to fight in the Palestinian Campaign of World War I. The likable Aussie soldiers include sturdy Red (Grant Taylor) and Jim (Chips Rafferty), who starts a relationship with a glamorous French woman named Juliet (Betty Bryant). After a series of difficult battles, the troops commence a thundering cavalry charge against their Ottoman foes in the Battle of Beersheba, fighting desperately to overcome their formidable enemy once and for all.