The Yearling (1946)
3.8 of 5 from 46 ratings
2h 7min
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- Synopsis:
After the American Civil War, a rebel soldier and his wife become pioneer farmers in Florida. Their son Jody (Claude Jarman Jr.) is 11 years old; he gets along well with his warm and affectionate father (Gregory Peck), but his mother (Jane Wyman) is haunted by the death of her other children, so she's somber, even cold. The boy wants a pet: the dad is sympathetic, the mom obdurate. When a rattler bites pa, pa kills a doe to use its organs to draw out the poison. Jody begs to keep the doe's fawn as a pet. The parents agree, and the boy and the deer are soon inseparable. The fawn grows quickly, and as a yearling tramples tobacco shoots and eats the newly-sprouted corn. This is too much for ma, and Jody has to face harsh, adult realities. - Actors:
- Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr., Chill Wills, Clem Bevans, Margaret Wycherly, Henry Travers, Forrest Tucker, Donn Gift, Frank Eldredge, Jane Green, Arthur Hohl, Victor Kilian, June Lockhart, George Mann, Robert Porterfield, Houseley Stevenson, Joan Wells, Dan White, Matt Willis
- Directors:
- Clarence Brown
- Producers:
- Sidney Franklin
- Writers:
- Paul Osborn, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, John Lee Mahin
- Others:
- Cedric Gibbons, Leonard Smith, Paul Groesse, Charles Rosher, Harold Kress, Arthur Arling, B. Willis
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Children & Family, Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- Ireland At the Oscars
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