Barbara Hale

After his wife dies in childbirth en route to California in 1870, Joel McCrea settles down in Oklahoma. He quickly finds trouble when he tries to protect an Indian woman caring for his baby.

In the South, peddler marries school teacher and then starts on a whirlwind rise politically, using hysteria among cotton pickers and small-town folk as his device.

Please don't tell why his hair turned green!

Nine-year-old Tommy Woodry has a history of making things up, but he insists he really saw this: a murder in his own apartment building! No one believes Tommy's story. No one except the killers.

Creeping!...Crawling!...Crushing!