RIP Richard Widmark

Later that day, the Navy men learn that due to increasing pressure from the enemy, they will not be relieved. Hoping to persuade the Mongols to help them defend the station, McHale requisitions sixty saddles, and although the order is met with bewilderment, the saddles soon arrive and the delighted Mongols begin training with Commander Wyatt, who dubs them the "1st Mongolian Cavalry, U.S. Navy."

the contemporary times review guesses this is all made up

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A05E4DA163DE23BBC4850DFB3668388649EDE

booo

This guy... Saw him tonight in a Delmer Daves western as a white man raised by Comanches, The Last Wagon. He owns it, carries it past the sentimental/formula moments with the ingenue, always supplies subtext effortlessly.