在这部陇上春色剧情/西部片中,一位新墨西哥州的牧场主人，由于过分热心工作而逐渐疏远了他的家庭，家人并没有放弃他，而是积极地帮助他，最后使得他又重回了家庭的怀抱。
这是一部拍得十分缓慢而感伤的西部文艺片，内容和趣味性都显得有点单薄，显然影片是拍得太长了。导演伊莱亚．卡赞的导技在本片中表现得平凡无奇，而史班赛屈塞和凯瑟琳．赫本这对美妙的搭档也显不出应有的光芒。不过摄影倒相当出色。
This western begins with St. Louis resident Lutie Cameron (Katharine Hepburn) marrying New Mexico cattleman Col. James B. 'Jim' Brewton (Spencer Tracy) after a short courtship. When she arrives in "Salt Fork, NM" she finds that her new husband is considered by the locals to be a tyrant who uses force to keep homesteaders off the government owned land he uses for grazing his cattle--the so-called Sea of Grass. Lutie, has difficulty reconciling her husband's beliefs and passions with her own.
