Courage

Bennett plays Mary Colbrook, the widowed mother of seven children living in Sioux City, Iowa. She moves with them to Cambridge, Massachusetts to educate her children with culture and give them every advantage. She takes out a loan from an unscrupulous lender, James Rudlin, who neglects to ask her for collateral. Muriel, Mary's eldest daughter, is shocked by her mother's actions and attempts to sacrifice herself to Rudlin. A stern aunt appears and is hell bent on taking her brother's children away from their mother.