Desire in the Dust (1960)

Directors

William F. Claxton

Cast

Anne Helm, Brett Halsey, Douglas Fowley, Edward Binns, Irene Ryan, Jack Ging, Joan Bennett, Kelly Thordsen, Margaret Field, Martha Hyer, Paul Baxley, Raymond Burr, Rex Ingram

The story

Lonnie Wilson, the son of sharecropper Zuba Wilson, returns to his small southern hometown of Clinton, Louisiana after spending six years on a chain gang for killing Colonel Ben Marquand's son Davey in an automobile accident. He revives his love affair with Melinda Marquand, who married Dr. Ned Thomas while Lonnie was serving time for the accident that she had actually caused.

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