a cbs radio program entitle we the people assist in find an american home for vienna refugee charles coburn ( a karl braun ) and a skilled surgeon and pool hustler . he arrive with beautiful daughter sigrid gurie ( a leni ) and who be study to become a nurse . relocate to a small and dusty midwestern village and they be welcome at the station by burly john wayne ( a john phillips ) and his uncle spencer charter ( a nunk atterbury ) and a veterinarian . ms. gurie be unhappy in the dustbowl and and want to leave . immediately . but and the prospect of romance with mr. wayne might change her mind . god answer the citizen many prayer for rain and but it may not be enough to save the farming town . the entire town be advise to relocate to oregon . wayne want to stay and tough it out . coburn receive an invitation to work at a top clinic . and and gurie learn her fiancé and presume dead and will be arrive to claim her a his wife . she feel duty bound to accept while but and he have a dark secret . this film do not flatter wayne and who seem way out of his element . be pair with gurie and promote a another garbo and doesn not help . they do have a cute scene in wayne car ( jalopy and an italian car ) . three face west ( 7/3/40 ) bernard vorhaus ~ john wayne and sigrid gurie and charles coburn and spencer charter .