Georgia. The turn of the century. * Many things were forbidden. * Most of all, the passions of a man and a woman. * "Miss Dunaway gives the full Katherine Hepburn treatment... * brimming with eccentric gusto and flinty resolve." -Rick Marin, Washington Times
This is a pleasant little Hallmark Hall of Fame film based upon the book of the same name by Olive Ann Burns. It a film that takes place in a very small, sleepy southern town around the turn of the century where an elderly gentleman, a Mr. Blakeslee (Richard Widmark), runs a general store in which he employs a very attractive, middle-aged milliner with the unlikely name of Miss Love Simpson. She is an outsider and a non-southerner, an attractive independent woman who is looked at a bit askance by the tow..