该片是由雅克·特纳执导的剧情片,于1950年上映，主要讲述了:Civil War veteran. Josia.h G.rey comes to a sma.ll town t.o b.e a gospel minister. .In tim.e he has a family and many .friends, but he al.so finds fri.ction .with a few o.f his parishioners. A young. doctor grates .at what he feels is the .parson's interfere.nce in the scientific tr.eatmen.t o.f patients, and a .mine owne.r r.esents Grey's protect.ion of. an old sharecropper whose .small plot of land. stands in t.he way. of his cont.inued mining. Grey must fac.e a public heal.th crisis and a lynch mo.b as a result, all. seen and described thro.ugh th.e e.yes and memory of .Grey's yo.ung. nephew John.