Originally produced as a motion picture in 1949. Based on the novel "Quality" by Cid Ricketts Sumner. Dolby Digital stereo. and mono. (English track with Spanish subtitles). Contains an audio commentary by film historian Kenneth Geist and an original theatrical trailer. Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan.
Summary:
A racially mixed woman working as a nurse in Boston finds she can pass as White, but leaves her fiance afraid that her true heritage will be discovered. Back at home in Mississippi, she is named heiress of an estate that her family has worked for, touching off a heated situation among the locals amidst a trial.
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