DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org The Southerner is a 1945 American 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. The film was later featured in an episode of Cinema Insomnia. Future director Robert Aldrich was an assistant director on this film. Sam Tucker is a cotton picker in Texas who decides to start his own farm. Cast Zachary Scott as Sam Tucker Betty Field as Nona Tucker J. Carrol Naish as Devers Beulah Bondi as Granny Tucker Percy Kilbride as Harmie Charles Kemper as Tim Blanche Yurka as Mama Tucker Norman Lloyd as Finlay Estelle Taylor as Lizzie Paul Harvey as Ruston Noreen Nash as Becky Devers Jack Norworth as Dr. White Nestor Paiva as Bartender Paul E. Burns as Uncle Pete Tucker Jay Gilpin as Jot Tucker Jean Vanderwilt as Daisy Tucker The staff at Variety magazine gave the film a favorable review and wrote, "The Southerner creates too little hope for a solution to the difficulties of farm workers who constantly look forward to the day when they can settle forever their existence of poverty with a long-sought harvest - a harvest that invariably never comes...Zachary Scott and Betty Field give fine performances, as do Beulah Bondi, the grandmother, Percy Kilbride, Charles Kemper and J. Carrol Naish. Bosley ...
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