Most mid-19th-century Mississippi River boys dreamed of occupying that pinnacle of power and glamour, the pilot house of a riverboat. In a riot of local color, this film tells how, unlike many, Sam's dream comes true. A callow teenager, he talks the tough but consummate Horace Bixby into making him his apprentice on the "Paul Jones," eventually following him to the much finer "Aleck Scott." Meanwhile, he is already spinning fantastic yarns to everyone from awe-struck lads ashore, to fellow "cub pilots", to young lady passengers who catch his eye. Things temporarily take a turn for the worse when Bixby must attend a meeting and leave Sam to work under Brown, a dour tyrant with a grudge against him.
Bakery Clerk (uncredited)
브루클린의 가난한 아일랜드 이민자 가정. 책을 좋아하는 당찬 13살 소녀 프랜시는 아버지 조니를 무척 따른다. 엄마 케이티는 악착같이 살림을 꾸리려 하지만, 조니는 안정된 일자리보다 꿈을 그린다. 그러던 중 케이티는 셋째를 임신하고, 조니에게 프랜시가 학교를 그만두게 해야겠다고 한다. 딸이 얼마나 학교를 좋아하는지 아는 조니는 눈보라 속에 일자리를 구하러 간다. 베티 스미스의 동명 소설을 각색한 카잔의 데뷔작으로, 가난한 이민자 가정의 소녀 프랜시의 성장을 그렸다. (2017년 영화의 전당 - 엘리아 카잔 특별전)
Henchman Moyer
Jim Sanders (Don 'Red' Barry), young cowboy, returns to his hometown for a reunion with his boyhood friend Clay Blackburn (George Offerman Jr.). Once there he learns that Clay's father, Frank Blackburn (Ivan Miller), is the unscrupulous proprietor of a stagecoach line and is out to bankrupt the line run by Joel Hunter (Griff Barnett' ), the father of Jim's sweetheart Ruth Hunter (Betty Moran). Jim is forced to lead the fight against his best friend.
Ranch Hand (uncredited)
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
Settler
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
