Genre			Drama
Length			1:55
Director			Martin Ritt
Writer			William Faulkner Irving Ravetch
Company			20th Century Fox
Starring			Paul Newman Joanne Woodward Anthony Franciosa Orson Welles Lee Remick Angela Lansbury Show more... Paul Newman Joanne Woodward Anthony Franciosa Orson Welles Lee Remick Angela Lansbury Richard Anderson Sarah Marshall Mabel Albertson J. Pat O'Malley Bill Walker

Ben Quick (Paul Newman) arrives in Frenchman's Bend, Mississipi after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner (Orson Welles) owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and despairs of him getting his wife, Eula, pregnant. Will thinks his daughter, Clara (Joanne Woodward), a schoolteacher, will never get married. He decides that Ben Quick might make a good husband for Clara to bring some new blood into the family.