Sam Tucker, a determined laborer, gambles on independence by farming a barren plot as a cotton sharecropper, while his family battles nature’s fury and a spiteful neighbor to forge a life from the unforgiving land.
Original title: The Southerner (1945)
From director Jean Renoir, who earned his only Academy Award nomination for this film. This drama also received Oscar nominations for Werner Janssen’s Score and Jack Whitney’s Sound, Recording. Based on the novel "Hold Autumn in your Hand", by George Sessions Perry, winner of the first National Book Award in 1941.
Main actors:
Zachary Scott – Sam Tucker
Betty Field – Nona Tucker
J. Carrol Naish – Henry Devers
Beulah Bondi – Granny Tucker
Percy Kilbride – Harmie
Charles Kemper – Tim
Blanche Yurka – Mama Tucker
Norman Lloyd – Finley
Estelle Taylor – Lizzie
Paul Harvey – Ruston
Noreen Nash – Becky Devers
Jack Norworth – Dr. White
Nestor Paiva – the bartender
Paul E. Burns – Uncle Pete Tucker
Jay Gilpin – Jot Tucker
Jean Vanderwilt – Daisy Tucker
Black & White version: https://youtu.be/_5eo5Dl0UpQ
