| The Southerner | |
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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 |
Release date |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $750,000[2] |
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]
- ^ "The Southerner". American Film Institute (AFI), Los Angeles, California. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
- ^ "Indies' $70,000,000 Pix Output: Record Negative Coin Investment". Variety (New York), page 3, column 3, November 1, 1944. News report that includes monetary investments by independent producers in unreleased films, including The Southerner, which in the newspaper is cited by the novel's title "'Hold Autumn in Your Hand'". Variety Incorporated, New York, N.Y. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
- ^ "The Southerner (1945)". Internet Movie Database (IMDb), an affiliate of Amazon, Seattle Washington. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
- ^ "The Southerner by Jean Renoir". A full digital copy of The Southerner is available for viewing, along with independent reviews, on Internet Archive. San Francisco, California. Retrieved July 7, 2017. Other copies of the film are also available on YouTube and elsewhere.
- ^ Although calendars depicted in The Southerner include no year dates, and no dialogue in the film refers to a specific time setting, the styling of a tractor and truck in scenes at Devers' farm and a car model in the street of the nearby town identify this to be a contemporary story, one set in the early 1940s.