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The Southerner

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The Southerner
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NR,1hr 31min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1945
Director:
Jean Renoir
Distributor:
Vci Video
Starring:
Zachary Scott, Betty Field, Beulah Bondi  ...more
Synopsis: The Southerner was Jean Renoir's favorite of his American films. Shot on location, the film stars Zachary Scott as a sharecropper who yearns for a place of his own. On a tiny, scraggly patch of land, Scott tries to make a go of things, along with his wife Betty Field, his grandmother Beulah Bondi, and his children Jean Vanderwilt (aka Bunny Sunshine) and Jay Gilpin. Though a proud, independent man, Scott is forced by circumstance to seek help from neighboring farmer J. Carroll Naish, whose life experience ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Costello, AMG Review
One of Jean Renoir's handful of American films, The Southerner is a moving portrait of the struggle of a Southern sharecropper to hold on to his small patch of ground. Zachary Scott stars as the Texas cotton farmer who buys a small piece of land with a rundown farmhouse and tries to make a go of it against long odds. Renoir's favorite of his American films, it's one of the most realistic depictions ... Full Review
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Zachary Scott
Sam Tucker
Betty Field
Nona Tucker
Beulah Bondi
Granny Tucker
Percy Kilbride
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