The cast featured George Abbott, Glenn Anders and Margaret Borough.

[2] It also helped launch the career of Clara Blandick, who later appeared as Auntie Em in the classic 1939 adaptation of The Wizard of Oz.

[4] The choice sparked controversy in literary circles and the media because the prize jury had actually selected George Kelly's The Show-Off, but was overruled by Columbia University, which was administering that year's Pulitzers as Hatcher Hughes was a professor there.

[5][6] Set in the Carolina mountains, late one afternoon to 9 o'clock that evening during the summer.

Rufe inspires old clan rivalry between the Hunts and the Lowrys, in an attempt to remove Sid from the picture.