Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.

• 20th Century Fox
• Charley Grapewin
• Marjorie Rambeau
• Gene Tierney
• William Tracy
• Elizabeth Patterson
• Dana Andrews
• Slim Summerville
• Ward Bond