Jean Renoir - The Southerner (1945) ENG Full Movie

The Southerner is a 1945 American drama film directed by Jean Renoir and based on the 1941 novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry. The film received Oscar nominations for Best Director (the only Oscar nomination Renoir received), 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 portrays the hardships of a poor family struggling to establish a cotton farm in Texas in the early 1940s.

Cast

Zachary Scott as Sam Tucker
Betty Field as Nona Tucker
J. Carrol Naish as Henry Devers
Beulah Bondi as Granny Tucker
Percy Kilbride as Harmie
Charles Kemper as Tim
Blanche Yurka as Mama Tucker
Norman Lloyd as Finley
Estelle Taylor as Lizzie
Paul Harvey as Ruston
Noreen Nash as Becky Devers
Jack Norworth as Dr. White
Nestor Paiva as the bartender
Paul E. Burns as Uncle Pete Tucker
Jay Gilpin as Jot Tucker
Jean Vanderwilt as Daisy Tucker