I don't know if you have noticed, but in Paramount westerns, and also adventures films, you often had TWO lead male characters, for the good side, but two characters between whom there was nearly always a gal, and some elements that also made them fight one against the other; for instance one of them was not the Union during the Civil War, and the other for the Confederates.... But when both of those guys had to fight against the really villain of the plot, the ugly bad guy, this time both our guys fought together against the evil dude. This excellent but predictable western will make no exception to this scheme. And useless to say that one of our heroes will not make it in the end. But who? The torture cavalcade scene, between the two horses, is very impressive, shocking, I think it is even worse, more cruel, than when the "subject" is tied between FOUR horses. I did not know this "indian" torture.