1945·Drama·1h 32m
7.1
★
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?
Directed by Jean Renoir
texas
migrant farmworker
farmer
sharecropper
cotton picker
amused
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Cast
Zachary Scott
Sam Tucker
Betty Field
Nona Tucker
J. Carrol Naish
Devers
Beulah Bondi
Granny Tucker
Percy Kilbride
W. Harmie
Charles Kemper
Tim
Blanche Yurka
Mama Tucker
Norman Lloyd
Finlay
Estelle Taylor
Lizzie
Paul Harvey
Ruston
Noreen Nash
Becky Devers
Paul E. Burns
Uncle Pete Tucker
Crew
Jean Renoir
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Nunnally Johnson
Writer
William Faulkner
Writer
Werner Janssen
Original Music Composer
Eugène Lourié
Production Design
Robert Aldrich
Assistant Director
Popular Reviews
10 reviews
Alex
5.2★ · 03/04/21
A Jean Renoir in exile double feature tonight! I didn’t like this nearly as much as The Woman on the Beach (which has already aged up to 4 stars), but it was very sweet. Sometimes it can get oppressively wholesome and I found the characters lacking in personality, but that is compensated for by genius direction from Renoir that recalled A Day in the Country. The man sure knows how to make the outdoors serene and inviting without sacrificing stakes. I don’t even know how he rides that line, but he’s mastered it.
Expected it to be racist (being a 40s Hollywood movie called The Southerner), but it really wasn’t. That was a nice surprise.
Expected it to be racist (being a 40s Hollywood movie called The Southerner), but it really wasn’t. That was a nice surprise.
A Jean Renoir in exile double feature tonight! I didn’t like this nearly as much as The Woman on the Beach (which has already aged up to 4 stars), but it was very sweet. Sometimes it can get oppressively wholesome and I found the characters lacking in personality, but that is compensated for by genius direction from Renoir that recalled A Day in the Country. The man sure knows how to make the outdoors serene and inviting without sacrificing stakes. I don’t even know how he rides that line, but he’s mastered it.
Expected it to be racist (being a 40s Hollywood movie called The Southerner), but it really wasn’t. That was a nice surprise.
Expected it to be racist (being a 40s Hollywood movie called The Southerner), but it really wasn’t. That was a nice surprise.
Davechild
6.0★ · 05/18/20
Wholesome farm shit.
Wholesome farm shit.
Dante
8.9★ · 06/12/25
m
7.1★ · 09/19/24
Sam
7.5★ · 05/24/24