Idealist John Wickliff Shawnessy drifts away from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither and enters into a passionate, but loveless, marriage with Susanna Drake a wealthy New Orleans belle. But John soon learns that Susanna's mother died in a lunatic asylum and it becomes apparent that Susanna has inherited her family's curse for she tricked him into marriage. Frustrated with life, John leaves home by enlisting in the Northern Army and fights in Tennessee and Georgia during the terrible and brutal Civil War where he does some soul searching for himself and explores his path in life to what may lay in store for him should he return home.

Starring:

Agnes Moorehead, Bill Walker, Burt Mustin, Charles Watts, Christopher Riordan, DeForest Kelley, Don Burnett, Donald Losby, Dorothy Granger, Eileen Stevens, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Frank Kreig, Frank Mills, Gardner McKay, Isabel Cooley, Jack Daly, James Griffith, Janet Lake, Jarma Lewis, John Eldredge, Lee Marvin, Michael Dante, Michael Dugan,

Genre:

Drama, Romance