The Southerner (1945) | Directed by Jean Renoir - Full Movie

The life of the poor Tucker family, that worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature is against them

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, now in the public domain, portrays the hardships of a poor family struggling to establish a cotton farm in Texas in the early 1940s.

Directed by: Jean Renoir
Screenplay by: Hugo Butler, Jean Renoir, William Faulkner, Nunnally Johnson
Based on Hold Autumn in Your Hand 1941 novel by George Sessions Perry
Produced by: Robert Hakim, David L. Loew
Starring: Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi
Cinematography: Lucien N. Andriot
Edited by: Gregg C. Tallas
Music by: Werner Janssen
Distributed by: United Artists
Release date: May 18, 1945
Running time: 92 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $750,000