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Dorothy Adams | Payne's secretary | |
Dana Andrews | Capt. Tim Harmon | |
Irving Bacon | Bank teller | |
Ward Bond | Lov Bensey | |
George Chandler | Hotel clerk | |
Spencer Charters | County Clerk | |
Charley Grapewin | Jeeter Lester | |
Charles Halton | Mayor | |
Grant Mitchell | George Payne | |
Elizabeth Patterson | Ada Lester | |
Marjorie Rambeau | Sister Bessie Rice | |
Robert Shaw | Hillbilly | |
Russell Simpson | Chief of Police | |
Slim Summerville | Henry Peabody | |
Gene Tierney | Ellie May Lester |
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Producer | Darryl F. Zanuck
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Writer | Erskine Caldwell
Nunnally Johnson |
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of hillbilly stereotypes live in a rural backwater where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming. |
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