Directed by:
Raoul WalshScreenplay:
Luther DavisCinematography:
Harry Stradling Sr.Composer:
Franz WaxmanCast:
James Cagney, Barbara Hale, Anne Francis, Warner Anderson, John McIntire, Jeanne Cagney, Lon Chaney Jr., Frank McHugh, Larry Keating, Mickey Simpson (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
In the South, peddler marries school teacher and then starts on a whirlwind rise politically, using hysteria among cotton pickers and small-town folk as his device. His rise is halted when his crooked goings-on are exposed. Based on the novel by Adria Locke Langley. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
![James Cagney](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/348/164348332_0d2b75.png)
James Cagney
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
One, Two, Three (1961)
White Heat (1949)
![Barbara Hale](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/105/792/105792683_16454e.jpg)
Barbara Hale
USA
Best movies:
Airport (1970)
The Window (1949)
The Clay Pigeon (1949)
![Anne Francis](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/105/792/105792675_d2db62.jpg)
Anne Francis
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Funny Girl (1968)
![Warner Anderson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/147/172/147172611_ee8078.jpg)
Warner Anderson
USA
Best movies:
Detective Story (1951)
Objective, Burma! (1945)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
![John McIntire](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/042/871/42871856_0a0c4d.jpg)
John McIntire
USA
Best movies:
Psycho (1960)
Westward the Women (1951)
Winchester '73 (1950)
![Jeanne Cagney](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/147/172/147172613_4c4d02.jpg)
Jeanne Cagney
USA
Best movies:
Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Quicksand (1950)
![Lon Chaney Jr.](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/612/162612083_76508c.jpg)
Lon Chaney Jr.
USA
Best movies:
Of Mice and Men (1939)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Love Is News (1937)
![Frank McHugh](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/099/533/99533950_28f4b0.jpg)
Frank McHugh
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
The Front Page (1931)
![Larry Keating](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/147/172/147172612_92158d.jpg)
Larry Keating
USA
Best movies:
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Monkey Business (1952)
Whirlpool (1949)
Mickey Simpson
USA
Best movies:
Giant (1956)
King Rat (1965)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
![Ellen Corby](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/505/505194_0e3db9.jpg)
Ellen Corby
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Vertigo (1958)
Sabrina (1954)
![Sara Haden](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/078/831/78831449_bfe457.jpg)
Sara Haden
USA
Best movies:
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Love Crazy (1941)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Sam McDaniel
USA
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Union Pacific (1939)
![James Griffith](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/712/158712209_15d5e5.jpg)
James Griffith
USA
Best movies:
The Killing (1956)
Spartacus (1960)
Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)
![Bert Stevens](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/256/159256255_85bf54.jpg)
Bert Stevens
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
![Jeffrey Sayre](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/162/159162653_651df8.jpg)
Jeffrey Sayre
USA
Best movies:
Bon Voyage! (1962)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
North by Northwest (1959)
![Dan White](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/228/159228302_b2c2cf.gif)
Dan White
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
![Burt Mustin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/256/159256216_7882c7.jpg)
Burt Mustin
USA
Best movies:
Detective Story (1951)
The Desperate Hours (1955)
Home from the Hill (1960)
![Onslow Stevens](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/318/159318022_903487.jpg)
Onslow Stevens
USA
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Counsellor at Law (1933)
When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
![Roland Winters](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/318/159318042_bcf8aa.jpg)
Roland Winters
USA
Best movies:
Citizen Kane (1941)
Loving (1970)
Bigger Than Life (1956)