Crad Hobbs, a Virginia waterman, is depressed over the decline in the shellfish trade and the gradual erosion of his former home, a barrier island off Virginia's Eastern Shore. Worse, his beautiful daughter and only child is engaged to a returning World War II veteran who forsakes the oystering trade to take a job with the local newspaper. The cub reporter's first job is interview a New York banker, and former resident, who has secretly come to the Eastern Shore to provide a loan for a beleaguered Latin-American president whose country is battling communist insurgents. Hobbs blames the banker for his home island's destruction; he believes if the banker had approved a loan for a system of breakwaters, the erosion, and resulting loss of fishing habitat, could have been prevented.
Jack Hardwood
as Crad Hobbs
Frances Helm
as Timmy Hobbs
Robert Bolger
as Bob Gilly
Alexander Campbell
as E.K. Lester
Geraldine Dvorak
as Glenda Lester
Frank Richards
as Spike
Al McGranary
as Winnie Winston
Winifred Cushing
as Marian Winston
Bertha Powell
as Sis Abby
Sidney Easton
as Ben - Winston's Butler
