by Jason Ankeny
synopsis
John Ford's Civil War-era docudrama stars John Wayne as John Marlowe, a Union colonel spearheading a group of saboteurs on a mission to destroy a Confederate railroad.
characteristics
- Saboteur
- Sabotage
- Railway
- Civil-War [US]
- Railroad
- War
- Heroic Mission
- Behind-enemy-lines
- Colonel
- Doctor
- Against-all-odds
- Mission [quest]