The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)

Young Matt Masters, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt’s mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred rampant in the mountains. However, the arrival of a stranger, Daniel Howitt, begins to positively affect the mountain people, who learn to shed their hatred under his gentle influence
Henry Hathaway
John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey, Beulah Bondi, James Barton, Samuel S. Hinds, Marjorie Main, Ward Bond, Marc Lawrence, John Qualen, Fuzzy Knight, Tom Fadden, Olin Howland, Dorothy Adams, Virita Campbell, Fern Emmett, Douglas Deems, C.E. Anderson, Hank Bell, Henry Brandon, Nora Bush, Jim Corey, William Haade, John Harmon, Selmer Jackson, Carl Knowles, Bob Kortman, Ann Kunde, Charles Middleton, Glen Walters
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