The Godchild

Synopsis

Three Union POWs fleeing across the desert to escape both their Confederate pursuers and rampaging Apaches come across a dying woman and her infant child. They promise the woman that they will take care of the child and get it to safety, even though none of them knows anything whatsoever about children or babies.

Jack Palance

Rourke

Jack Warden

Sgt. Dobbs

Keith Carradine

Lt. Lewis

Ed Lauter

Crees

José Pérez

Sanchez

Bill McKinney

Cpl. Crawley

Jesse Vint

Loftus

Fionnula Flanagan

Virginia

John Quade

Denton

Neil Brooks Cunningham

William

Ed Bakey

Shaw

Kermit Murdock

Nathaniel Mony