An over-sentimental, painfully folksy neo-Western about Ozarks moonshiners, very slow and almost devoid of action - apart from a faintly unconvincing fight between John Wayne and Ward Bond. Here Wayne, whose star was still rising after the success of Stagecoach, is as much at sea as the rest of the cast as a young mountain boy intent on killing his own father - who deserted his family these many years before. But, as you can (very easily) guess, things don't go entirely to plan, after a stranger turns up in the hills. It's hard to sit through this, even though it's wonderfully shot in early Technicolor by camera masters W Howard Greene and Charles Lang Jr. The strong cast includes Harry Carey, Marjorie Main and Betty Field, plus a typical ranting matriarch from Beulah Bondi.

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