Driftwood

An orphan (Natalie Wood) is cared for by a doctor (Dean Jagger) and the village pharmacist (Walter Brennan) in this heart-tugger. Ruth Warrick, Charlotte Greenwood, H.B. Warner. Mayor: Jerome Cowan. Essie: Margaret Hamilton. Directed by Allan Dwan., In this western melodrama, the town pharmacist adopts a precocious nine-year-old orphan. The child quickly endears herself to the town, which is being wiped out by a spotted fever epidemic. The girl and her stepfather try to cope with the emotional situations arising from the soaring death toll.