After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drifting handyman, they fall in love, and a resentment begins to build between the son and his new "step-father" who treats the boy harshly on purpose to prepare him for life on the frontier.

Genres

Cast

Susan Hayward

Mary Sharron

Stephen Boyd

Fred Carter

Barbara Nichols

Mayme Radzevitch

Theodore Bikel

Dr. R. W. Gibbs

Ken Scott

Sergeant Le Moyne

James Philbrook

Henri

Florence MacMichael

Mrs. Bedelia Gibbs