David Howitt, a stranger, comes among the mountain folk of the Missouri hills and, taken in by an Ozark family, becomes known as The Shepherd because of his gentle and kindly ways. Years earlier, his son betrayed a mountaineer's daughter, and The Shepherd hopes to atone for his error. When a continued drought threatens the people with starvation and ruin, they lose faith in the "miracle man" and mock him, though he begs them to keep the faith.

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Cast

Alec B. Francis

David Howitt, The Shepherd

Molly O'Day

Sammy Lane

John Boles

Young Matt

Matthew Betz

Wash Gibbs

Romaine Fielding

Old Matt

Otis Harlan

By Thunder

Maurice Murphy

Little Pete

Edythe Chapman

Aunt Mollie

Carl Stockdale

Jim Lane

Ena Gregory

Maggie