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Uneducated and poor, Libby lives a sheltered life in a broken down shack with her unloving parents. When a work crew of San Quentin convicts arrives to put in a new road, she takes an interest in Barry, a wild and uncontrollable young man. Despite the advances of upstanding engineer Jeff Barker, Libby opts for Barry and helps hide him when he escapes. However, with the posse hunting she cant hide him forever.
Twenty-two year old Libby Saul still lives with her parents, Cliff and Ellie Saul, on their isolated, rundown farm on the edge of the woods on the central California coast. In addition to needing to do all the housework, Libby has to act as the sole intermediary between her bitter parents who no longer interact with each other, with Ellie, focused on her hypochondria which leads her to believe that she needs to be bedridden, not trusting brusque Cliff to do right by them, especially in his abuse, both physical and emotional. This situation has led to Libby not being socialized to norms, her timidity and insecurity manifested primarily by a stutter. To escape her life, she often wanders through the woods which she knows like the back of her hand, a secret, abandoned cabin which she had made up and which she considers her emotional home. Their isolation will soon change as a new highway is being built nearby, the government having purchased part of their property through which the highway will run. The construction crew, which contains prison inmate labor, is currently working on the stretch near their home, Libby who often secretly watches them work from the hills above. In the Sauls meeting many of the workers, Cliff and Ellie individually try to act as matchmaker for Libby and the kindly construction foreman, war veteran Jeff Barker, who is indeed interested, while Libby cant help but be drawn to a convict name Barry Burnette, partly in understanding his plight as feeling like she is in a prison of her own. When circumstance allows Barry to escape, he and Libby do eventually clandestinely meet and fall in love, she learning that his impetuous behavior has led to all his problems, including this current incarceration. The question becomes if there can be a future for them, especially as they plan for one while the authorities, led by Sheriff Akers, a bulldog of a man, are on a manhunt for who they consider a dangerous escapee.
Ida Lupino
Libby Saul
Dane Clark
Barry Burnette
Wayne Morris
Jeff Barker
Fay Bainter
Ellie Saul
Henry Hull
Cliff Saul
Willard Robertson
Sheriff Akers
John Alvin
Convict
Leonard Bremen
Convict
Clancy Cooper
Guard
Eddie Dunn
Posseman
Ralph Dunn
Deputy
Ross Ford
Convict
William Haade
Guard
Douglas Kennedy
Guard
Bob Lowell
Convict
Ian MacDonald
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Rory Mallinson
Foreman
Jack Mower
Supervisor
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