Katharine Hepburn plays a backwoods faith healer accused of witchcraft—Pre-Code chaos at its finest.
Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a dam, who protects her.
Acting
Hepburn's bizarre accent—part hillbilly, part theater kid.
Production
Gritty Appalachian sets that reek of authenticity.
Writing
Pre-Code dialogue that sneaks past the censors.
Director
John Cromwell
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