UNITED STATES · 1959

Woman Obsessed

Henry Hathaway
widow seeking companionship frontier life and survival step parent conflict coming of age on the frontier family dynamics and loyalty
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After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drifting handyman, they fall in love, and a resentment begins to build between the son and his new "step-father" who treats the boy harshly on purpose to prepare him for life on the frontier.

Year1959
CountryUnited States
DirectorHenry Hathaway
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