Parrish

Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen. The two of them are on a tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. The plantation belongs to Sala Post. Then Ellen marries. The man she marries is Judd Raike. Raike is Post’s rival and a ruthless planter. What he is after is to drive Post out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up. So Parrish is left between the two sides. The tobacco fields are the fixed setting of the account. The film runs drama and romance together. Troy Donahue and Claudette Colbert take the leads, with Karl Malden and Dean Jagger also in the cast, in Delmer Daves’s American film of 1961.