Jean Renoir received a Best Director Oscar nod for this adaptation of George Sessions Perry's story about Sam (Zachary Scott), a tired Texan sharecropper who turns his energies to cultivating his own cotton crop. But Sam faces bitter odds as he struggles to build a better life for himself and his family in this rural take on the American Dream. A critical hit, The Southerner won Best Film at the 1946 Venice Film Festival.
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Length: 01:31:00 Released: 1945
