While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett develops romantic feelings for Manya Novak, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik Sobieski. After a snowstorm, Tony and Manya get trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists that her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.

Gary Cooper
as Tony Barrett

Anna Sten
as Manya Novak

Ralph Bellamy
as Fredrik Sobieski

Helen Vinson
as Dora Barrett

Sig Ruman
as Mr. Jan Novak

Esther Dale
as Mrs. Kaise Novak

Leonid Snegoff
as Sobieski

Eleanor Wesselhoeft
as Mrs. Sobieski

Milla Davenport
as Grandmother

Walter Brennan
as Bill Jenkins
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On this face of it, this is just another one of these star vehicles with a story based on a restless hero with a bit of a roving eye. It actually turns out to be far better than that as Gary Cooper is "Tony" a writer who can't get published any more. Getting a bit low on the shekels, he, his wife "D...