"Luke Fargo was through with sin... but sin wasn't through with Luke Fargo!"
A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War.
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The people behind it
Van Heflin
Luke Fargo
Joanne Woodward
Lissy
Philip Carey
Albert Loomis
Raymond Burr
Yancey Huggins
Allison Hayes
Georgina Decrais
Myron Healey
Floyd Miller
Nancy Kulp
Matty Miller
James Griffith
Swallow
Richard Webb
Kathryn Givney
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