14 Nov 2022
Amongst the Ashes
Two brothers seek to repair their strained relationship while visiting the gravesite of their parents.
The First Kiss
All the world loves a lover.
The Talbots, formerly one of the Eastern Shore's first families, have gone to seed: Pap is a drunk, soddenly decaying in his ruined ancestral home, and three of his sons (William, Carol, and Ezra) are lazy, shiftless young men. Mulligan, Pap's second son who supports the entire family by oyster fishing, falls in love with wealthy Anna Lee, but when he first kisses her, she calls him "white trash."
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Fay Wray Anna Lee
Gary Cooper Mulligan Talbot
Lane Chandler William Talbot
Leslie Fenton Carol Talbot
Paul Fix Ezra Talbot
Malcolm Williams "Pap"
Monroe Owsley Other suitor
George Nash (uncredited)
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