Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle driven by young Ben Gunther. Ben temporarily abandons his damaged cycle and accepts a ride from Julie but insists upon calling her Barbara. Later, at the Merriday beach house, Julie's Aunt Sarah tells Julie that her great great grandmother was named Barbara, and furthermore, that ancestress had an illegitimate child fathered by one Benjamin Gunther.
Troy Donahue
as Ben Gunther
Joey Heatherton
as Julie Merriday
Barry Sullivan
as Julian Merriday
Nicolas Coster
as Harry Lindsay
Jeanette Nolan
as Sarah Merriday
Russell Thorson
as Sheriff R. Seaton
Ben Wright
as Lansbury
Shirley Mitchell
as Mrs. Courtland
Howard McNear
as Henry
Howard Wendell
as Mayor
John Holland
as Mr. Courtland
John McCook
as Owen Farley
