Will Varner regeert met strenge hand over Frenchman's Bend, een dorpje langs de Mississippi. Hij is grootgrondbezitter, zit in verkiezingscomités en is eigenaar van de bank, het benzinestation en de kruidenierswinkel.
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Jerry Wald Productions, 20th Century Fox
- Trefwoord: small town, based on novel or book, arranged marriage, host family, family relationships, sexual tension, arson, class differences, false accusations, arsonist, sexual repression, overbearing father, stranger, based on short story, sharecropper, general store, father son conflict, summertime, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, southern gothic, seducer, charming man
- Gips: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury