When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the paratroopcorps of firefighters in the U. S. Forest Service, is flown to the scene from their regional headquarters in Missoula, Montana. The Forest Rangers, under Cliff Mason, put out the blaze, but several of the firefighters are killed. Ed Miller, son of one of the dead rangers, thinks he died because Mason was a coward, and sets out to prove it.

Director: Joseph M. Newman
Writers: Harry Kleiner (screenplay), Art Cohn (based on a story by)
Stars: Richard Widmark, Constance Smith, Jeffrey Hunter
Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox