 The music score was by Alfred Newman, and the cinematography by Arthur C. Miller.The film stars Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, and Vincent Price.Raised in 1844 Greenwich, Connecticut by her strait-laced low church parents, Ephraim (Walter Huston) and Abigail (Anne Revere), Miranda Wells (Gene Tierney) is a farm girl who often daydreams of a more romantic and luxurious life outside the farm.