Set against the backdrop of World War II, an Argentine family with both French and German branches is torn apart when its members end up on opposite sides of the conflict, one son becoming a Nazi officer while his cousin joins the French Resistance, as the family patriarch's old warnings about the apocalyptic "Four Horsemen" prove prophetic. Vincente Minnelli's lavish remake of the 1921 Rudolph Valentino silent classic, based on Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's novel, starring Glenn Ford.