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Byron Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum, receives a ride into the rural Missouri town of Delphi with rich land-owner Tobias Brown.
Top billed cast
Brandon De WildeByron Turner
Lee MarvinTobias Brown
Gary MerrillDoyle Magee
Paul FordFinas Daugherty
Mary HosfordAnne Love Price
Ken CurtisFred Mueller
Frank CadyWillie Poole- Cal TinneyClyde Hamilton, the baker
Mary FieldNelda Hamilton
Kathleen FreemanSerena Poole
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