
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
Cast

Jennifer Jones
Pearl Chavez

Joseph Cotten
Jesse McCanles

Gregory Peck
Lewton "Lewt" McCanles

Lionel Barrymore
Sen. Jackson McCanles

Herbert Marshall
Scott Chavez

Lillian Gish
Laura Belle McCanles

Walter Huston
The Sinkiller

Charles Bickford
Sam Pierce

Harry Carey
Lem Smoot

Joan Tetzel
Helen Langford

Tilly Losch
Mrs. Chavez

Butterfly McQueen
Vashti

Scott McKay
Sid

Otto Kruger
Mr. Langford

Sidney Blackmer
The Lover

Charles Dingle
Sheriff Hardy

Griff Barnett
Bordertown Jailer (uncredited)
John Barton
Party Guest (uncredited)

Hank Bell
McCanles' Ranch Hand (uncredited)

Audrey Betz
Party Guest (uncredited)
Edward Biby
Party Guest (uncredited)

Johnny Bond
Party Guest (uncredited)
Lovyss Bradley
Party Guest (uncredited)
Nora Bush
Party Guest (uncredited)

Lane Chandler
Cavalry Captain (uncredited)
George Chung
Man (uncredited)

Tex Cooper
Party Guest (uncredited)

Frank Cordell
Sid (uncredited)
Tom Daly
Cowboy (uncredited)

Tom Dillon
Train Engineer (uncredited)
Steve Dunhill
Jake (uncredited)
Slim Gaut
Party Guest (uncredited)

Si Jenks
Party Guest (uncredited)

Carmencita Johnson
Party Guest (uncredited)

Jack Kenny
Barfly (uncredited)

Victor Kilian
Gambler (uncredited)
Al Kunde
Barfly (uncredited)
Ann Kunde
Party Guest (uncredited)

Kermit Maynard
Barfly (uncredited)

Francis McDonald
Gambler (uncredited)

Robert McKenzie
Zeke the Bartender (uncredited)

Hank Patterson
Man (uncredited)

Lee Phelps
Train Fireman (uncredited)
Rose Plumer
Dancer (uncredited)

Bob Reeves
Townsman (uncredited)

Bert Roach
Party Guest (uncredited)
Allen D. Sewall
Party Guest (uncredited)
Lucile Sewall
Party Guest (uncredited)
Lloyd Shaw
Barbecue Dance Caller (uncredited)
Tom Smith
Barfly (uncredited)

Al Taylor
Party Guest (uncredited)
Jack Tornek
Townsman (uncredited)

Orson Welles
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Dan White
Ed (uncredited)

Guy Wilkerson
Party Guest (uncredited)

Hank Worden
Party Guest (uncredited)
Crew

King Vidor
Director
Otto Brower
Co-Director, Second Unit Director

William Dieterle
Co-Director

Josef von Sternberg
Co-Director

Sidney Franklin
Co-Director

William Cameron Menzies
Co-Director

Ben Hecht
Writer
Oliver H.P. Garrett
Adaptation

David O. Selznick
Screenplay, Producer, Presenter

Niven Busch
Novel
Hal C. Kern
Supervising Film Editor
Lee Garmes
Director of Photography

Harold Rosson
Director of Photography
Ray Rennahan
Director of Photography
Lowell J. Farrell
Assistant Director
J. McMillan Johnson
Production Design

Walter Plunkett
Costume Design
Margaret Martin
Hairstylist
Norbert A. Myles
Makeup Artist
Robert Stephanoff
Makeup Artist
B. Reeves Eason
Second Unit Director
James G. Stewart
Sound Director
Richard DeWeese
Sound Recordist
Clarence Slifer
Special Effects

Dimitri Tiomkin
Original Music Composer, Conductor

Richard Farnsworth
Stunts
Charles P. Boyle
Additional Photography
William H. Ziegler
Associate Editor
John Faure
Associate Editor
James Basevi
Art Direction



















