Child Bride (1938)

Child Bride 1938 12 year old Jennie lives with her parents in extremely rural mountain country Her schoolteacher Miss Carol, a mountain girl herself, went off to get educated and has returned hoping to stop the tradition of child marriage which permeates the culture Jennies father Ira is a good man who tries to protect Miss Carol from the men who warn her to call off her crusade One of those threatening men, Jake Bolby, has his eye on young Jennie and plots to make her his bride