A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of a stubborn octogenarian from her home on an island in the river, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.
as Chuck Glover
as Carol Garth Baldwin
as Ella Garth
as Hank Bailey
as Hamilton Garth
as Cal Garth
as Jack Roper
as Betty Jackson
as Walter Clark
as Sy Moore
as Sam Johnson (uncredited)
