In his feature film debut,
Glenn Ford plays a department-store clerk who saves up enough money to buy a small patch of land in Arizona. Unable to afford a car, Ford hitchhikes to his new home, and along the way teams up with a transient (
Richard Conte) and an illegal alien (
Jean Rogers). The girl is torn between both men, but ultimately opts for the clerk. To save the girl from deportation, the clerk marries her, and together they make a new life for themselves in his tiny Arizona homestead. Adapted from a story by
Dalton Trumbo, Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence was directed by former silent film star
Ricardo Cortez. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide