After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drifting handyman, they fall in love, and a resentment begins to build between the son and his new "step-father" who treats the boy harshly on purpose to prepare him for life on the frontier.

Susan Hayward
as Mary Sharron

Stephen Boyd
as Fred Carter

Barbara Nichols
as Mayme Radzevitch

Dennis Holmes
as Robbie Sharron

Theodore Bikel
as Dr. R. W. Gibbs

Ken Scott
as Sergeant Le Moyne

James Philbrook
as Henri

Florence MacMichael
as Mrs. Bedelia Gibbs
CinemaSerf
I found the title of this film slightly misleading as Susan Hayward shuns her glamorous looks to play "Mary". She lives happily with her husband and young son "Robbie" (Dennis Holmes) until a forest fire renders her a widow and she really begins to struggle to maintain their small farm. Things might...