Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.
Richard Barthelmess
as Marvin Blake
Dorothy Jordan
as Betty Wright
Bette Davis
as Madge Norwood
Hardie Albright
as Roland Neal
David Landau
as Tom Blake
Berton Churchill
as Lane Norwood
Dorothy Peterson
as Lilly Blake
Russell Simpson
as Uncle Joe
Tully Marshall
as Slick
Henry B. Walthall
as Eph Clinton
Edmund Breese
as Holmes Scott
John Marston
as Russell Carter