Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
Acting
Jean Parker's ferocious fragility carries the whole film.
Writing
Pre-Code frankness about pregnancy, poverty, and desire.
Director
Elliott Nugent
Jean Parker
Mazie
Tom Brown
Adam
Zasu Pitts
Esthey Roberts
Arthur Byron
Slag
Beulah Bondi
Mrs. Slag
Nydia Westman
Corie
Willard Robertson
George Marshall
Charley Grapewin
Sandy Roberts
Emerson Treacy
Milt Pollard
Paul Nicholson
The Sheriff
Wade Boteler
2nd Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
Jim Farley
1st Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
Edith Fellows
Rogers' Daughter (uncredited)
Earle Hodgins
Carnival Barker (uncredited)
Matt McHugh
Counter Man (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 1934, this squeaked through before the Production Code's July enforcement—making it a time capsule of what Hollywood was forced to abandon.
Beulah Bondi plays Mrs. Slag here; she'd become America's most typecast mother figure within five years, making this early cruelty extra jarring.
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