In antebellum New Orleans, Irish gambler Stephen Fox (Rex Harrison) wins a plantation and a beautiful, aristocratic wife (Maureen O’Hara), but can he master them? With its tale of tumultuous romance in an opulent, overheated Old South, The Foxes of Harrow was seen as an answer to Gone with the Wind. But Foxes draws a darker picture of the Southern culture of power and property, suggesting disturbing parallels between marriage and slavery. The script was loosely based on a novel by Frank Yerby, the first African American author to sell a book to a Hollywood studio.