Rachel and the Stranger (1948)

Directors

Norman Foster

Cast

Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum, Gary Gray, Tom Tully, Sara Haden, Frank Ferguson, Walter Baldwin, Regina Wallace

The story

In early America, David Harvey, a recent widower farming in the wilderness of the Northwest Territory, decides he needs a woman around to help raise his son, Davey, so he travels to the nearest settlement and consults with Parson Jackson and his wife about what to do. In view of the dearth of women in the settlement, it is decided that David will buy the contract of an indentured servant named Rachel, and she will keep house and care for Davey. David agrees to marry Rachel, but the marriage is in name only, as he is still grieving his dead wife, Susan.

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