In the intensely-told, psychological drama, Letty Mason (Lillian Gish) - a "proper," fragile, sheltered, naive and young Southern belle suffering from impoverishment, raveled by train from Virginia to the frontier West, presumably in the 1880s.Amazingly, the film received only one unsuccessful Academy Award nomination - for Best Original Story (Monckton Hoffe), that lost toHere Comes Mr.When she heard breaking glass, Trish (with a machete) proceeded upstairs, where she heard water running in the shower.He demands to know why Mulwray is denying water to his livestock and crops, and then accuses the engineer of being paid off to divert water from the farms in the valley:You steal water from the valley.His father, after discovering that he doesn""t really intend to sleep but plans o sneak off, orders Willie back to bed and confiscates his uniform.