Driftwood (1947)
Allan Dwan directs the family-oriented drama Driftwood, starring nine-year-old Natalie Wood. Orphan Jenny Hollingsworth (Wood) is found in a rural small town in Nevada that is ravaged by Rocky Mountain fever. She meets the local doctor, Steve Webster (Dean Jagger), who is working on a research project. Steve plans on leaving the girl with his girlfriend, Susan Moore (Ruth Warrick), while he goes to San Francisco to do research. However, enny's dog attacks a little boy and gets taken away by Sheriff Bolton (James Bell). Jenny develops Rocky Mountain fever from the dog and gets deathly ill. Also starring Walter Brennan as Murph, Charlotte Greenwood as Mathilda, and Jerome Cowan as Mayor Snyder. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
- Starring:
- James Bell, Walter Brennan, (more)
- Director(s):
- Allan Dwan
Synopsis of Driftwood
Allan Dwan directs the family-oriented drama Driftwood, starring nine-year-old Natalie Wood. Orphan Jenny Hollingsworth (Wood) is found in a rural small town in Nevada that is ravaged by Rocky Mountain fever. She meets the local doctor, Steve Webster (Dean Jagger), who is working on a research project. Steve plans on leaving the girl with his girlfriend, Susan Moore (Ruth Warrick), while he goes to San Francisco to do research. However, enny's dog attacks a little boy and gets taken away by Sheriff Bolton (James Bell). Jenny develops Rocky Mountain fever from the dog and gets deathly ill. Also starring Walter Brennan as Murph, Charlotte Greenwood as Mathilda, and Jerome Cowan as Mayor Snyder. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
Complete Cast of Driftwood
- James Bell - Sheriff Bolton
- Dean Jagger - Dr. Steve Webster
- Natalie Wood - Jenny
- Francis Ford - Abner Green
- Teddy Infur - Lester Snyder
- Alan Napier - Dr. Adams
- H.B. Warner - Rev. Hollingsworth
- Ellen Corby
- Jerome Cowan - Mayor Snyder
- Walter Brennan - Murph
- Hobart Cavanaugh - Judge Beckett
- Howland Chamberlain - Hiram Trumbell
- Charlotte Greenwood - Mathilda
- James Kirkwood - Rev. MacDougal
- Ray Teal - Perkins
- Ruth Warrick - Susan
- Margaret Hamilton - Essie Keenan
- Director(s):
- Allan Dwan
- Writer(s):
- Mary Loos, Richard Sale
- Producer(s):
- Allan Dwan
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