
Melissa Stark, a young girl in the Tennessee mountains tries to unite feuding families (Allisons & Watts) and help her preacher father, Jethro, while navigating romance with lawyer Tom Williams and a mistaken identity crisis that leads to her father's tragic death, after which the families reconcile. The story involves a newspaper ad for a dress, a mistaken identification of Jethro as a murder fugitive by a deputy sheriff, and a violent confrontation that ends with Jethro's innocence proven but his life lost.

as Melissa Stark

as Jethro Stark

as Tom Williams

as Cyrus Kimball

as Larry Watts

as Sally Smith

as Dr. Brand

as Mrs. Sanders

as Cutler Sanders

as Sam Allison

as Mrs. Watts

as Grandpa Allison

as Grandpa Watts