The Talbots, formerly one of the Eastern Shore's first families, have gone to seed: Pap is a drunk, soddenly decaying in his ruined ancestral home, and three of his sons (William, Carol, and Ezra) are lazy, shiftless young men. Mulligan, Pap's second son who supports the entire family by oyster fishing, falls in love with wealthy Anna Lee, but when he first kisses her, she calls him "white trash."

Cast

Fay Wray

Anna Lee

Gary Cooper

Mulligan Talbot

Lane Chandler

William Talbot

Leslie Fenton

Carol Talbot

Paul Fix

Ezra Talbot

Monroe Owsley

Other suitor

Malcolm Williams

"Pap"