After the Matthews family buys a farm, the father suffers a severe injury, which puts his four children in charge. Daughter Deborah and her kid sister Susan take the lead--with help from the... Read allAfter the Matthews family buys a farm, the father suffers a severe injury, which puts his four children in charge. Daughter Deborah and her kid sister Susan take the lead--with help from the handsome local agricultural agent.After the Matthews family buys a farm, the father suffers a severe injury, which puts his four children in charge. Daughter Deborah and her kid sister Susan take the lead--with help from the handsome local agricultural agent.
- Jessie Wexford
- (as Jeanne La Duke)
- Dr. Pomeroy
- (uncredited)
- Joe
- (uncredited)
- Land Owner with Loggers
- (uncredited)
- Mr. Clairborne
- (uncredited)
- Mr. Grinstedt
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaThere is one scene where a young Natalie Wood is supposed to run across a bridge. She was told that the bridge would collapse after she got to the other side, but there was an accident and the bridge collapsed while she was still on it. She broke her wrist and it never healed properly. She always wore a bracelet to hide the lump left behind.
- GoofsWhen Susan is running home from school and encounters a bull, a moving shadow of a crew member is visible on the ground, lower left of the frame.
- Quotes
Reverend Jim Benton: The really sinful man or woman is the one who, through bigotry and ignorant pride, refuses to learn, and calling his ignorance virtue tries by self-made rule and by scorn to keep all others from learning. These are the real sinners. And here is the vilest evil: to feed their ego, to disguise their inadequacies, to hide their quaking fears, they sneer at the new, revile the experimenter and deride the pioneer and then, hypocritically, defend their actions behind the fog-bound fortress of intolerance.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Too Young to Die: Natalie Wood - Die Macht der Prophezeiung (2014)
Mr. Matthews (Walter Brennan) and his children arrive in town and they buy a farm. One of their neighbors is David Barkley (Robert Paige) and he's a college educated agricultural agent. But Matthews is a stubborn old guy and refuses to listen to Barkley--choosing to use his old tried and true methods. Likewise, he doesn't listen to his children but dominates them. He pretends everyone in the family gets a say but uses emotional blackmail to get his way every time. When Matthews is badly hurt and his children have to run the farm, the oldest, Deborah (Marguerite Chapman) decides to loosen up the reins and try new methods. When her father eventually learns of this, he tries to sabotage her efforts--all to prove he was right after all.
One of the beneficiaries of Dad's injury is little Susan (Natalie Wood). She's wanted to raise lambs and join 4-H but he vetoed this because...well...because he could! Now with Dad laid up in bed, Susan tries to prove she can raise sheep on her own.
Fortunately, everything works out by the end of the film....and I stopped hating Matthews! It is a nice little film...just try to ignore Matthews' boorishness that occasionally rears its ugly head. Also, try to ignore the kid in the Aunt Jemima costume at the party! My how times have changed!
- planktonrules
- Nov 14, 2015
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- La promesa verde
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- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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