Everytime a woman turns her face away because she's tired or unwilling - there's someone waiting like me!
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish boy Sammy Golden, and his son is a mama's boy. He finally storms out of the house when Cora falsely accuses him of having an affair with Mavis Pruitt.
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Robert Preston
Rubin Flood
Dorothy McGuire
Cora Flood
Eve Arden
Lottie Lacey
Angela Lansbury
Mavis Pruitt
Shirley Knight
Reenie Flood
Lee Kinsolving
Sammy Golden
Frank Overton
Morris Lacey
Penny Parker
Flirt Conway
Robert Eyer
Sonny Flood
Robin Warga
Harold
Ken Lynch
Harry Ralston
Mary Patton
Peg Ralston
Addison Richards
Harris
Helen Wallace
Lydia Harper
Emerson Treacy
George, the banker
