James Gregory plays a thoroughly contemptible character, a sharecropper who uses his sensitive young son as a pawn in a get-rich-quick oil scheme. Gregory is fine, and so is Terry Moore, but the story of the "poor white trash" suddenly overwhelmed by riches, runs steadily downhill.

Arthur O'Connell and Joanna Moore guest star in a drama about a con artist and his daughter who scheme against the Garret holdings.

When a twenty-year old itinerant ranch hand (Keir Dullea) damages Garret property, Jim Redigo (Richard Egan) gives him a choice of jail or a chance to work off the damage.