The Southerner
The picture that never lets go of your heart!
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?
- 6.5
- 1945
- Released
- 1h 32m
Zachary Scott
Sam Tucker
Betty Field
Nona Tucker
J. Carrol Naish
Devers
Beulah Bondi
Granny Tucker
Percy Kilbride
W. Harmie
Charles Kemper
Tim
Blanche Yurka
Mama Tucker
Norman Lloyd
Finlay
Estelle Taylor
Lizzie
Paul Harvey
Ruston
Noreen Nash
Becky Devers
Paul E. Burns
Uncle Pete Tucker
Jay Gilpin
Jottie TuckerJean Vanderwilt
Daisy TuckerJack Norworth
Dr. White
Nestor Paiva
Bartender
Almira Sessions
Mrs. Burke (uncredited)
Rudy Bowman
Townsman (uncredited)Nora Bush
Townswoman (uncredited)
Wheaton Chambers
Store Customer (uncredited)Grace Christy
Townswoman (uncredited)Pearl S. Cooper
Townswoman (uncredited)
Anne Cornwall
Townswoman (uncredited)
Dorothy Granger
Party Girl (uncredited)
Earle Hodgins
Wedding Guest (uncredited)Al Kunde
Townsman (uncredited)Ann Kunde
Townswoman/Wedding Guest (uncredited)Russell Meeker
Townsman (uncredited)Allen D. Sewall
Townsman (uncredited)Lucile Sewall
Townswoman (uncredited)
George Sowards
Townswoman (uncredited)Bunny Sunshine
Little Girl (uncredited)Glen Walters
Townswoman/Wedding Guest (uncredited)Released
en
- #texas
- #migrant farmworker
- #farmer
- #sharecropper
- #cotton picker
Reviews
A family are quite literally tuckered out trying to farm for cotton when husband "Sam" (Zachary Scott) and his wife "Nona" (Betty Field) decide it's time to move with their two young children and start a life for themselves somewhere else. They alight on a rocky farmstead that centres on a ramshackle old house and decide that they are going to see if they can grow cotton there. Thing is, the terra