
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish boy Sammy Golden, and his son is a mama's boy. He finally storms out of the house when Cora falsely accuses him of having an affair with Mavis Pruitt.
Cast

Robert Preston
Rubin Flood

Dorothy McGuire
Cora Flood

Eve Arden
Lottie Lacey

Angela Lansbury
Mavis Pruitt

Shirley Knight
Reenie Flood

Lee Kinsolving
Sammy Golden

Frank Overton
Morris Lacey
Penny Parker
Flirt Conway
Robert Eyer
Sonny Flood
Robin Warga
Harold

Ken Lynch
Harry Ralston

Mary Patton
Peg Ralston

Addison Richards
Harris

Helen Wallace
Lydia Harper

Emerson Treacy
George, the banker

Peg La Centra
Edna Harper

Paul Comi
Jenkins
Crew

Delbert Mann
Director
Irving Ravetch
Screenplay

Harriet Frank Jr.
Screenplay
Folmar Blangsted
Editor
Harry Stradling Sr.
Director of Photography
Michael Garrison
Producer
Marjorie Best
Costume Design

Max Steiner
Original Music Composer
George James Hopkins
Set Decoration
Robert Turner
Props

William Inge
Theatre Play
Leo K. Kuter
Art Direction
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