The Southerner (film)
1945 film by Jean Renoir / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[3] The film portrays the hardships of a poor family struggling to establish a cotton farm in Texas in the early 1940s.[4][5]
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Directed by | Jean Renoir |
Screenplay by | Hugo Butler Jean Renoir |
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 Percy Kilbride |
Cinematography | Lucien N. Andriot |
Edited by | Gregg C. Tallas |
Music by | Werner Janssen |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $750,000[2] |
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