John Wayne teams up with Kirk Douglas in The War Wagon, an action-packed western. Wayne plays rancher Taw Jackson a man who's dead set on capturing an iron-clad stagecoach belonging to a cattle baron (Bruce Cabot) who stole his fortune and tarnished his good name years before. To pull off the heist, Jackson puts together a crew that includes an old character (Keenan Wynn), a half civilized Indian (Howard Keel), a young drunk (Robert Walker Jr.) and a cocky gunfighter (Douglas). Of course, they manage the impossible to the tune of half a million dollars in gold bullion, and the music of Academy Award winner Dimitri Tiomkin.