A silent heartbreaker where love and debt collide in rural America.
When Barton Baynes's mother and father die, his Aunt Deel and Uncle Peabody provide a home for him. He grows up with Amos Grimshaw, son of a miserly moneylender who holds the farmers of the area in his power, and falls in love with Sally Dunkelberg.
Acting
Eugenie Besserer's maternal warmth anchors every frame she's in.
Direction
T. Hayes Hunter crafts rural intimacy through restrained tableaux.
Director
T. Hayes Hunter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This adapts Booth Tarkington's 1917 novel, part of his 'Growth' trilogy examining Midwestern social mobility.
Director T. Hayes Hunter was Black—a rarity in 1920s Hollywood—and later thrived in British cinema.
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