Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for two years to achieve his dream of buying two red-bone coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in life as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with his dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann.

• Doty-Dayton Production
• Stewart Petersen
• James Whitmore
• Beverly Garland
• Jack Ging
• Lonny Chapman
• Jill Clark
• Jeanna Wilson
• Bill Thurman