1. The Southerner (1945) | MUBI
Sam is a Texan cotton picker who aspires to run his own farm and create a better life for his family. Aided by his beautiful wife, Nona, Tucker begins to ...
Sam is a Texan cotton picker who aspires to run his own farm and create a better life for his family. Aided by his beautiful wife, Nona, Tucker begins to work a neglected plot of land, but numerous difficulties arise, including bad weather and conflicts with jealous neighbors.

2. The Southerner | Rotten Tomatoes
In this rural drama, Sam Tucker (Zachary Scott) is a Texan cotton picker who aspires to run his own farm and create a better life for his family.
In this rural drama, Sam Tucker (Zachary Scott) is a Texan cotton picker who aspires to run his own farm and create a better life for his family, which includes two kids and the irritable Granny Tucker (Beulah Bondi). Aided by his beautiful wife, Nona (Betty Field), Tucker begins to work a neglected plot of land, but numerous difficulties arise, including bad weather and conflicts with jealous neighbors, making it hard for the Tuckers to get ahead.

3. The Southerner (Film, 1945) - MovieMeter.nl
Tegenvallend drama over een arme familie die het hoofd boven water probeert te houden ondanks een hoop tegenslag (en een tegensputterend omaatje). Het conflict ...
Drama film geregisseerd door Jean Renoir. Met Zachary Scott, Betty Field en J. Carrol Naish.

4. The Southerner (1945) - Jean Renoir - film review and synopsis
Film Synopsis. Sam Tucker is a young migrant worker who scrapes a living toiling for others on the cotton fields of Texas. When his uncle, another cotton picker ...
An in-depth review of the film The Southerner (1945), directed by Jean Renoir.

5. The Southerner - Variety
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 ...
There is something distressing about the haphazards of the soil's human migrants, and all the squalor that one associates with their condition is brought to The Southerner. An adaptation [by Hugo Butler] from the George Sessions Perry novel, Hold Autumn in Your Hand, this film conjures a naked picture of morbidity. It may be trenchant realism, but these are times when there is a greater need. Escapism is the word.

6. The Southerner (1945) directed by Jean Renoir • Reviews, film + cast
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease ...
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as farmers?

7. The Southerner (Film) - TV Tropes
The Southerner is a 1945 drama film written and directed by Jean Renoir, adapted from the 1941 novel Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry.
The Southerner is a 1945 drama film written and directed by Jean Renoir, adapted from the 1941 novel Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry. It's a story about a year in the life of the Tucker clan. As the film begins they are poor laborers …

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Modern sources credit Rex in the role of "Zoonie," the Tuckers' dog. The film received mostly favorable reviews. ... Escapism is the word." In early Aug 1945, ...
As veteran picker Pete Tucker lays dying from heat stroke in a Texas cotton field, he urges his young nephew, Sam Tucker, a fellow picker, to find his own land to work. Sam takes Pete's advice to heart and, after discussing the matter with wife Nona, asks his boss, Ruston, for permission to rent a piece of his land that has been idle for several years. Equipped with only two mules and some cotton seed, Sam, Nona, their children, Jot and Daisy, and Sam's cantankerous grandmother move their meager belongings to Ruston's farm. The Tuckers are dismayed to discover that the farm house is small and barely livable and the water well, non-functional. Although Sam immediately offers to return to his old job, Nona concludes that if they can borrow some water from their neighbor, they can survive until spring. When Sam asks neighbor Devers for access to his well, Devers, a cynical, embittered man, grants it grudgingly and lets Sam know that his chances for success are slim. As autumn turns to