A passion so strong it kills.
Wayland Jackson, a widower with a young daughter, moves to a small, impoverished mountain village in North Carolina, circa 1934. They are taken in by Collie Wright, a single mother with an illegitimate baby, and she and Wayland soon fall in love. Trouble starts when the identity of her baby's father is revealed.
- Director
- Ted Kotcheff
- Writers
- Carol Sobieski
Themes1930smountainnorth carolinasmall townwidower
