Robert Redford, Natalie Wood, Charles Bronson, Kate Reid, Mary Badham, Alan Baxter
Repressed desires, sultry women, sweltering weather and a handsome new stranger in town... Depression-era Dodson, Mississippi, is particularly devastated with the arrival of Owen Legate (Robert Redford), a railroad official, with a pocketful of pink slips, for the rail yard employees. Alva Starr (Natalie Wood), is the coquettish town flirt with plenty of big plans, but nowhere to go...until Legate appears on her doorstep. Their ensuing affair enrages Alva's distant, uncaring mother (Kate Reid), ignites a town's revenge.

Running time: 110 minutes approx.

DVD Region 4