Byron Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum, receives a ride into the rural Missouri town of Delphi with rich land-owner Tobias Brown.

Brandon De Wilde
as Byron Turner

Lee Marvin
as Tobias Brown

Gary Merrill
as Doyle Magee

Paul Ford
as Finas Daugherty

Mary Hosford
as Anne Love Price

Ken Curtis
as Fred Mueller

Frank Cady
as Willie Poole

Cal Tinney
as Clyde Hamilton, the baker

Mary Field
as Nelda Hamilton

Kathleen Freeman
as Serena Poole