Crad Hobbs, a Virginia waterman, is depressed over the decline in the shellfish trade and the gradual erosion of his former home, a barrier island off Virginia's Eastern Shore. Worse, his beautiful daughter and only child is engaged to a returning World War II veteran who forsakes the oystering trade to take a job with the local newspaper. The cub reporter's first job is interview a New York banker, and former resident, who has secretly come to the Eastern Shore to provide a loan for a beleaguered Latin-American president whose country is battling communist insurgents. Hobbs blames the banker for his home island's destruction; he believes if the banker had approved a loan for a system of breakwaters, the erosion, and resulting loss of fishing habitat, could have been prevented.
Arthur Varney
Director
Jack Hardwood
Crad Hobbs
Frances Helm
Timmy Hobbs
Robert Bolger
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Alexander Campbell
E.K. Lester
Geraldine Dvorak
Glenda Lester
Frank Richards
Spike
Al McGranary
Winnie Winston
Winifred Cushing
Marian Winston
Bertha Powell
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