L'uomo del Sud

Titolo originale: The Southerner
Regia: Jean Renoir |
Anno: 1945
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma
Tag: texas | migrant farmworker | farmer | sharecropper | cotton picker |
Cast: Zachary Scott | Betty Field | J. Carrol Naish | Beulah Bondi | Percy Kilbride | Charles Kemper | Blanche Yurka | Norman Lloyd | Estelle Taylor | Paul Harvey | Noreen Nash | Paul E. Burns | Jay Gilpin | Jean Vanderwilt | Jack Norworth | Nestor Paiva | Almira Sessions | Rudy Bowman | Nora Bush | Wheaton Chambers | Grace Christy | Pearl S. Cooper | Anne Cornwall | Dorothy Granger | Earle Hodgins | Al Kunde | Ann Kunde | Russell Meeker | Allen D. Sewall | Lucile Sewall | George Sowards | Bunny Sunshine | Glen Walters |

L'aspra vita di un giovane contadino e della sua famiglia, decisi a conquistare una vita libera e dignitosa sulla propria terra, nonostante le avversità e le calamità naturali.

Approfondimenti

The medical term for "spring sickness" mentioned in the film is pellagra, which is caused by a dieta [...] D
The posters for the films showing at the local movie theatre are One Rainy Afternoon (1936), Vogues [...] D
Grace Christy's debut. D
The film was banned on its release by the Memphis Board of Censors, which claimed it gave "a false i [...] D
Based on the novel "Hold Autumn in your Hand", by George Sessions Perry, which won the first Nationa [...] D
The "twin days" was how farmers referred to February 28 and 29 in a leap year. 1932, 1936 , and 1940 [...] D
Originally intended for Joel McCrea, but when the studio couldn't get him they gave it to Zachary Sc [...] D
Perserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. D
Director Jean Renoir wanted to film on location in Texas, but could not due to war-time restrictions [...] D
The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling in [...] D
Zachary Scott was borrowed from Warner Bros. for this film. D
This film earned legendary director Jean Renoir his only Best Director Oscar nomination. D
According to contemporary articles in The Hollywood Reporter, Joel McCrea and his wife Frances Dee w [...] D
Final film, and first role of any consequence in ten years, for silent film actress, 50 year old Est [...] D
This film's earliest documented telecast took place in San Francisco Monday 6 August 1951 on Chevrol [...] D
The calendar depicted throughout shows dates for 1944. D
Sam tells Tim he hopes for 2 bales of cotton per acre. That would be an exceptionally good yield. In [...] D