A childless middle-age couple adopt a troubled youth they find living in their crawlspace and attempt to get him to rejoin society with tragic results.
Arthur Kennedy
as Albert Graves
Teresa Wright
as Alice Graves
Tom Happer
as Richard Roy Atlee
Eugene Roche
as Sheriff Emil Birge
Matthew Cowles
as Dave Freeman
Dan Morgan
as Mr. Harlow
Roger Serbagi
as Davalos
Fleet Emerson
as Wheeler
Louise Campbell
as Miz Gerard