In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
Bette Davis
as Regina Hubbard Giddens
Herbert Marshall
as Horace Giddens
Teresa Wright
as Alexandra "Zan" Giddens
Richard Carlson
as David Hewitt
Dan Duryea
as Leo Hubbard
Patricia Collinge
as Birdie Hubbard
Charles Dingle
as Ben Hubbard
Carl Benton Reid
as Oscar Hubbard
Jessica Grayson
as Addie
John Marriott
as Cal
Russell Hicks
as William Marshall
Lucien Littlefield
as Manders