

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
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Cast

Cathy O'Donnell
Catherine "Keechie" Mobley

Farley Granger
Arthur "Bowie" Bowers

Howard Da Silva
Chicamaw One-Eye Mobley

Jay C. Flippen
Henry "T-Dub" Mansfield

Helen Craig
Mattie

Will Wright
Mobley

William Phipps
Young Farmer

Ian Wolfe
Hawkins

Harry Harvey
Hagenheimer
Marie Bryant
Singer

Will Lee
Jeweler

James Nolan
Schreiber
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