艾伦·海尔

艾丽（克劳黛·考尔白 饰）有一个显赫有钱的家庭，这恰恰成为她感情不如意的根源——父亲不赞成她和飞机师卫斯理结婚。艾丽一气之下离家出走，前去找卫斯理，不料途中钱财遭抢。遇上记者沃恩（克拉克·盖博 饰），沃恩得知艾丽是个不平常的富家女，确信艾丽非常有新闻价值，可以炮制出吸引眼球的新闻，便一路与艾丽同行。路上车前进遇阻，乘客得在半路住一晚旅馆，而身无分文的艾丽只能与沃恩同屋，并在床上用毯子间隔开两人来睡。旅途颠簸，意外连连，二人共同经历了不少难忘之事。感情在渐渐滋长。艾丽的目的地就要到了，两人的心中都有些欲言又止的情愫。面对自己本来想要寻找的卫斯理，面对父亲门当户对的思想，艾丽和沃恩的感情不知走向何处。

Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time he has a family and many friends, but he also finds friction with a few of his parishioners. A young doctor grates at what he feels is the parson's interference in the scientific treatment of patients, and a mine owner resents Grey's protection of an old sharecropper whose small plot of land stands in the way of his continued mining. Grey must face a public health crisis and a lynch mob as a result, all seen and described through the eyes and memory of Grey's young nephew John.