Watch The Southerner (1945) Free Online

Release Date: 1945

Cast: Zachary Scott, Blanche Yurka, J. Carrol Naish, Estelle Taylor, Norman Lloyd, Betty Field, Percy Kilbride, Charles Kemper, Beulah Bondi

Categories: Movies, Family Drama, Drama Film, Film Adaptation

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. The staff at Variety magazine gave the film a... MORE

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. 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 Crowther, the film critic of the New York Times at the time, liked the film and wrote, "The Southerner may not be an "entertainment" in the rigid Hollywood sense and it may have LESS