Essie, a mountain girl, moves in with a family of neighboring bootleggers when her father, also a bootlegger, is killed by federal agents. She falls in love with Tom, one of the family's brothers, but another brother, the violent and brutal Lem, decides he wants her for himself, and beats Tom badly. What the girl doesn't know is that it wasn't the feds who killed her father--it was Lem. Complications ensue.

Cast

Emily Fitzroy

Mrs. Tolliver

Burr McIntosh

Mr. Tolliver

Charles Emmett Mack

Tom Tolliver

George Bancroft

Lem Tolliver

Elinor Fair

Essie Hardin

Fred Koser

Tolliver Son

Ernest Chandler

Tolliver Son

Leslie Stowe

John Hardin