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The Angry Screen: The Southerner

on BBC Two England

Starring Zachary Scott, Betty Field
with J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi, Percy Kilbride

Migratory worker Sam Tucker decides to settle down, and becomes a tenant farmer in Texas. This poetic but realistic chronicle of a year in the struggle for survival by the Tucker family against appalling odds was French director Jean Renoir's most successful Hollywood film.
(Another film about the Deep South, Nothing But a Man: Thursday, 10.15 pm. This Week's Films: page 9)

Contributors

Screenplay/Director:
Jean Renoir
Based on the novel by:
George Sessions Perry
Producer:
David L. Loew
Producer:
Robert Hakim
Sam Tucker:
Zachary Scott
Nona Tucker:
Betty Field
Devers:
J. Carrol Naish
Granny:
Beulah Bondi
Daisy:
Jean Vanderwilt
Jot:
Jay Gilpin
Harmie:
Percy Kilbride
Ma:
Blanche Yurka
Tim:
Charles Kemper
Finley:
Norman Lloyd
Doctor:
Jack Norworth
Bartender:
Nestor Paiva
Lizzie:
Estelle Taylor
Becky:
Noreen Roth
Party girl:
Dorothy Granger

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