The Southerner

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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: June 8, 1999
  • Originally Released: 1945
  • Label: VCI Video

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 870
Rating: 3.5/5 -- A rich, unusual and sensitive delineation of a segment of the American scene well worth filming and seeing. Full Review
New York Times
Mar 25, 2006
Rating: 4.5/5 -- A remarkably naturalistic portrayal of one family's struggle to start a farm in the South. Full Review
TV Guide
Jul 30, 2003
Rating: 4.5/5 -- Jean Renoir is perhaps the greatest of all film directors. He is certainly the most lovable. Full Review
ToxicUniverse.com
May 1, 2003
Rating: A- -- Made while Frenchman Renoir was in Hollywood in exile, this rural portrait is a better film than Swamp Water, showing the helmer's penchant for meticulous attention to detail and lyrical realism, for which he received his only directing Oscar nomination Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Feb 8, 2007
Jean Renoir's 1945 examination of dirt farmers in the American south is probably his finest Hollywood film, which is to say a masterpiece. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Jan 1, 2000
Renoir's most successful American film, loose, free-flowing, honest. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
Rating: A- -- The land is pictured as being so real that you can almost taste it. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Feb 20, 2007

Product Description:

Zachary Scott stars as Sam Tucker in this story of a Texas sharecropper who decides, with the support of his wife Nona (Betty Fields), to buy a small piece of land and work for himself. The property they buy is rundown and with their young children, they must struggle to survive. A misanthropic neighbor, Devers (J. Carroll Naish), who grudgingly offers them the use of his well but refuses the milk they need when their son, Jot (Jay Gilpin), is dangerously ill, sets the tone for much that will follow.

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  • UPC: 089859821127
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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