She hated the child whose life stirred within her...because it was part of him whom she loathed and despised...
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.
Henry Hathaway
Director
Sydney Boehm
Writer

Susan Hayward
Mary Sharron

Stephen Boyd
Fred Carter

Barbara Nichols
Mayme Radzevitch
Dennis Holmes
Robbie Sharron

Theodore Bikel
Dr. R. W. Gibbs

Ken Scott
Sergeant Le Moyne

James Philbrook
Henri

Florence MacMichael
Mrs. Bedelia Gibbs
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