A Distant Trumpet

Troy Donohue stars as a West Point graduate assigned to Fort Delivery in the Arizona desert, a military post on the Mexican border with lax discipline and surrounded by hostile Indians . . . a backwater tinderbox ready to explode in the Western A Distant Trumpet. 1883. Lieutenant Matt Hazard (Donohue) sets out to enforce spit-and-polish discipline, but along the way he learns to respect the Apache Indians who are supposed to be his enemy--and falls in love with Mrs. Kitting Mainwaring (Suzanne Pleshette), the wife of his superior officer. Now, when a new commander, General Quaint (James Gregory), reneges on a peace agreement between the Army and the Indians, Lt. Hazard pleads the Apache's case all the way to Washington, D.C. Based on the novel by Paul Horgan.