Driftwood

Jenny is an orphan girl. She turns up in a small western town. A collie is at her side. There is a doctor in the town. His name is Steve Webster. He takes the child in. She has never known a settled home like it. An epidemic then breaks out. The disease is carried by ticks. Left alone it could take the whole town. Jenny helps the doctor as he works against it, and the dog she brought with her stays part of the story. The film is one of the close studies of small town American life its director was known for. Natalie Wood, Ruth Warrick, Walter Brennan and Dean Jagger appear in the eighty eight minute film, an American production Allan Dwan finished in 1947.