The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957) DVD-R

Starring Audie Murphy, Kathryn Grant, Hope Emerson, Jeff Donnell, Jeanette Nolan
Directed by George Marshall

Print: color
Runtime: 82 min.
Genre: western

Murphy deserts the Union Army to warn former Texas neighbors of impending Indian
attacks triggered by Army massacre. He overcomes initial distrust and convinces the
homesteaders (all women whose men are away fighting in the Confederate Army) to take
refuge in an abandoned mission. He trains them to fight and shoot in anticipation of the
attack. The only other man at the mission runs away o save his scalp and ends up leading
the Indians back to the mission. Surrounded and outnumbered, the defenders prepare for
the final assault.