The Southerner: Zachary Scott, Betty Field, Norman Lloyd, Estelle Taylor (1945 Movie)

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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 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 some flaws, but it is, nevertheless, a rich, unusual and sensitive delineation of a segment of the American scene well worth filming and seeing."

Awards:

Wins National Board of Review: NBR Award, Best Director, Jean Renoir; 1945.

Nominations Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Director, Jean Renoir; Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, Werner Janssen; Best Sound, Recording Jack Whitney (Sound Services Inc); 1946.

Zachary Scott (21 February 1914 -- 3 October 1965) was an American actor, most notable for his roles as villains and "mystery men."

Betty Field (February 8, 1913 -- September 13, 1973) was an American film and stage actress. Through her father, she was a direct descendant of the Pilgrims John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts to George Field and Katharine Lynch, Field began her acting career on the London stage in Howard Lindsay's farce, She Loves Me Not. Following its run she returned to the United States and appeared in several stage successes, before making her film debut in 1939. Her role as Mae, the sole female character, in Of Mice and Men (1939) established her as a dramatic actress.

She starred opposite John Wayne in the 1941 film The Shepherd of the Hills. Field played supporting roles in films such as Kings Row (1942), in which she played a victim of incest, although that fact was not readily apparent due to the heavy censorship of the time.

Field preferred performing on Broadway and appeared in Elmer Rice's Dream Girl and Jean Anouilh's The Waltz of the Toreadors, but returned to Hollywood regularly, appearing in Flesh and Fantasy (1943), The Southerner (1945), The Great Gatsby (1949), Picnic (1955), Bus Stop (1956), Peyton Place (1957), BUtterfield 8 (1960) and Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). Her final film role was in Coogan's Bluff in 1968. She also appeared on television.

Norman Lloyd (born November 8, 1914) is an American actor, producer, and director with a career in entertainment spanning more than seven decades. Lloyd, who currently resides in Los Angeles, has appeared in over sixty films and television shows.

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