"An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana."
Ruth Warrick
as Susan Moore
Walter Brennan
as Murph
Dean Jagger
as Dr. Steve Webster
Charlotte Greenwood
as Mathilda
Natalie Wood
as Jenny Hollingsworth
Jerome Cowan
as Mayor Snyder
Margaret Hamilton
as Essie
Francis Ford
as Abner Green
H.B. Warner
as Rev. Hollingsworth
Howland Chamberlin
as Prosecuting attorney
Hobart Cavanaugh
as Judge Beckett
Mary Field
as Mrs. White
Alan Napier
as Dr. Nicholas Adams
Teddy Infuhr
as Lester Snyder
James Bell
as Sheriff Bolton
James Kirkwood
as Rev. MacDougal
Ray Teal
as Mr. Perkins
Carl Switzer
as Messenger boy
Dick Elliott
as Townsman
Zeke Holland
as Blaine Perkins
Richard Sale
as Mailman
Allan Dwan
Director
Screenplay
Dick Moder
Assistant Director
Mary Loos
Herbert Norsen
Sound
John Alton
Director of Photography
John McCarthy Jr.
Set Decoration
Frank Arrigo
Art Direction
George Milo
Peggy Gray
Makeup Artist
Producer
Nathan Scott
Original Music Composer
Adele Palmer
Costume Design
Theodore Lydecker
Special Effects
Hairstylist
Howard Lydecker
Arthur Roberts
Editor