Donald MacDonald

Burt Lancaster and Dianne Foster star in this dramatic tale of a father and young son's journey across the rugged, 1820 Kentucky wilderness amidst ferocious fighting, high-stepping minstrels and gorgeous scenery.

Outlaw Tris Hatten (Raymond Burr) is finally in jail, thanks to young Clay's (Donald MacDonald) tip to his brother-in-law, Sheriff Addams (Hugh O'Brian). The lawman keeps Clay's involvement under his white hat to protect him from retribution, but he can't fool local newsman Jonathan Tatum. Tatum's suspicion that Addams is hogging the limelight puts Clay directly in the Hatten gang's sights. Nancy Gates and Rebecca Welles co-star in this oater.

Canova, playing as herself, is employed as charwoman and general maintenance worker at her aunt's hotel in "Greebville", striving to earn enough money to cover mortgage payments for her run-down "ranch" where she lives along with three orphaned youngsters and, as a means of forestalling boredom, Judy is also subscribing to a mail order course with the Continental Correspondence School, hoping therewith to find true love.