The Roof Tree

Directed by John Francis Dillon

With William Russell, Florence Deshon, Sylvia Breamer, William Robert Daly and Arthur Morrison

When Sally McTurk's husband is murdered, her brother Ken Thornton goes into hiding and winds up in a small mountain community, using a phony name. He's taken in by a local family, the Harpers. A mutual attraction soon develops between Thornton and the family's daughter, Dorothy, but a local bully who has designs of his own on Dorothy sets out to have Ken killed.