Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as farmers?... (Full plot summary below)
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Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as farmers?
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| Chicago ReaderDave KehrJean Renoir's 1945 examination of dirt farmers in the American south is probably his finest Hollywood film, which is to say a masterpiece. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThe land is pictured as being so real that you can almost taste it. |
| ToxicUniverse.comDan CallahanJean Renoir is perhaps the greatest of all film directors. He is certainly the most lovable. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyMade while Frenchman Renoir was in Hollywood in exile, this rural portrait is a better film than Swamp Water, showing the helmer's penchant for meticulous attention to detail and lyrical realism, for which he received his only directing Oscar nomination |
| Time OutDerek AdamsRenoir's most successful American film, loose, free-flowing, honest. |
| User Reviewcody fi like : Jean Renoir anyway The Southerner (1945) is a film directed by Jean Renoir, based on the novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry. The film received Oscar nominations for Best Director, Original Music Score and Sound. Renoir was named Best Director by the National Board of Review, which also named the film the third best of 1945. It stars Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi, Percy Kilbride, Charles Kemper, Blanche Yurka, and Norman Lloyd. Future director Robert Aldrich was an assistant director on this film. |
| User ReviewVince - A.K.A Peilo P12/08/08 Downloaded and watched it Previously watched it on AMC or TMC, and fell in love with the story and couldn't wait to find a copy |
| User ReviewClay BThursday, February 18,2010 (1945) The Southerner B/W Another film about about what it's like growing up during the 'Great Depression'. Story from an actual novel of the same name directed well by Jean Renoir. The film has a superficial ending which some could not accept, but again it's not based on real life and is very well made!! 4/4 |
| User ReviewByron BNot surprised to see Faulkner as uncredited writer on this... Mixes brutality with lyricism in a way suggestive of Yoknapatawpha. |
| User ReviewJohn AA strong, naturalistic portrait of a group of people not often given their due in the golden age of Hollywood, The Southerner follows a poor farming family through a year of trials, perseverance, and undying hope. Renoir presents the main characters without irony and with a focus on the land which both sustains them as well as frustrates their efforts. The story itself is simple and episodic, but Renoir is seeking to capture a time, place, and people, which he does quite well. |
