The Last Stand on the Plains is a 1957 war film starring Jack Kennedy, Jack Jones, George Fish and Martin Micks, set in 1950 during the Battle of Beerwolde. The film follows three young Marines in the 5th Battalion, led by Captain Henry Mayhew (Kennedy), in the Boer Republic during the Boer-American War, and their triumphant last stand at Beerwolde to hold off Boer troops as the rest of the American troops retreat. It was a major commercial and critical success and is cited as a textbook example of late-1950's "patriot films," a notoriously jingoistic genre of films trumpeting American military success and heroes.