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.

• DirectorHenry Hathaway
• Release27 May 1959
• Genre
  Drama / Romance
• Duration1h 42m
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• Rate
  

  6.5
  10 reviews
• Productions

  20th Century Fox