Will is also disappointed with the man that his 23-year-old daughter, Clara, has been seeing for five or six years: Alan Stewart (Richard Anderson), a genteel Southern blue blood and a mama’s boy. When Will returns from a stay in the hospital, he is furious at Jody for hiring a notorious barn burner but soon begins to see in Ben a younger version of himself and comes to admire his ruthlessness and ambition, qualities that Jody lacks. Will is away, but his only son, Jody (Anthony Franciosa) agrees to let Ben become a sharecropper on a vacant farm. Clara’s father, Will Varner (Orson Welles) is the domineering owner of most of the town. Ben hitches a ride to Frenchman’s Bend, Mississippi, with two young women in a convertible, Clara Varner (Joanne Woodward) and her sister-in-law Eula (Lee Remick). Flame follows that man around like a dog! Ben Quick (Paul Newman) is on trial for barn-burning but when no solid evidence is found the judge expels him from town.