A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Teresa Wright | ... | Thor Callum | |
| Robert Mitchum | ... | Jeb Rand | |
| Judith Anderson | ... | Mrs. Callum | |
| Dean Jagger | ... | Grant Callum | |
| Alan Hale | ... | Jake Dingle | |
| John Rodney | ... | Adam Callum | |
| Harry Carey Jr. | ... | Prentice | |
| Clifton Young | ... | The Sergeant | |
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Ernest Severn | ... | Jeb, age 11 |
| Charles Bates | ... | Adam, age 11 | |
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Peggy Miller | ... | Thor, age 10 |
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Norman Jolley | ... | A Callum |
| Lane Chandler | ... | A Callum | |
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Elmer Ellingwood | ... | A Callum |
| Jack Montgomery | ... | A Callum | |
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After his family is murdered in the 1880s, orphan Jeb Rand is raised by the Callum family on their nearby horse ranch. He remains haunted by this childhood trauma in a recurring nightmare of flashing spurs and confinement inside a trap door as his family is slaughtered. Widow Callum does her best to make Jeb feel loved as he is growing up, but the young man stubbornly maintains a sense of his own identity. While he has great affection for his foster-sister Thor, his relationship with her brother Adam is tenuous at best, especially when Jeb blames him for shooting a colt that he was riding. Although Mrs. Callum blames the incident on deer hunters, she is aware that the it was actually the attempted murder of the youngster by her brother-in-law Grant, a shadowy figure who, for vague reasons, is determined to harm Jeb. Jeb loses a coin flip with Adam, and becomes the designated family volunteer to fight in the Spanish-American War. Jeb returns a hero, but does not find happiness. ... Written by duke1029@aol.com
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evil uncle | adoptive family | adopted son | stepbrother stepsister relationship | stepbrother stepbrother relationship |Taglines:
Robert Mitchum fights for the love of three people who want to see him dead...his family.Parents Guide:
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1947 (Germany) See more »Also Known As:
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Although some of the outdoor vistas are breathtaking, the standard establishing shot of the ranch is shot indoors with a quite obvious painted canvas backdrop. See more »On IMDb TV, you can catch Hollywood hits and popular TV series at no cost. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free!
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Truly a "film noir" - there are essentially no humorous scenes in this movie with the possible exception of the jury deliberation scene. The main story line revolves around repressed memories that gradually emerge, everything in this movie is dark from the story to the camera work... a classic.