Starring Robert Redford, Natalie Wood, Charles Bronson, Kate Reid, Robert Blake, Dabney Coleman, Mary Badham, and Jon Provost. Directed by Sidney Pollack. Thirteen-year-old Willie Starr sits on an abandoned railroad track with her friend Tom and relates the story of her deceased older sister Alva, a beautiful woman living in a small Mississippi town in the 1930s with her manipulative mother Hazel, the owner of a boarding house. Hazel wants Alva to marry the well to do Mr. Johnson but Alva has fallen in love with a good-looking stranger from New Orleans, Owen Legate, who is in town to lay off railroad workers. Hazel is opposed to their love affair and when Owen is beaten to a pulp by a gang of workers, he decides to leave town and take Alva with him. But Hazel fools Owen into thinking Alva is engaged to Mr. Johnson. In retaliation, Alva marries Hazel's loutish lover J.J. The next day, she abandons J.J. to meet Owen in New Orleans. Her mother, incensed at Alva's betrayal, sets out to ruin her daughter's reputation by exposing her marriage to J.J. to the world.
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