Drama ·Comedy · United States of America · 1958 · 1h 58m

God's Little Acre

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Director
Anthony Mann
Cast
Robert Ryan as Ty Ty Walden Jack Lord as Buck Walden Tina Louise as Griselda Walden, Ty Ty's daughter-in-law Aldo Ray as Bill Thompson Buddy Hackett as Pluto Swint, Sheriff Candidate Fay Spain as Darlin' Jill
Crew
Ernest Haller — Director of Photography Richard C. Meyer — Editor Elmer Bernstein — Original Music Composer Philip Yordan — Screenplay Erskine Caldwell — Novel Sidney Harmon — Producer
Tagline

Love! Hate! Pride! Passion! Rampant, Riotous In the Heat of a Southern Sun!

Synopsis

In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze threaten to destroy their family.

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Mood & Themes
sexual tensionfamily dramafarmerlabor unionmillinerycotton millshutdown
Key Collaborators
Anthony Mann Director Ernest Haller Director of Photography Richard C. Meyer Editor Elmer Bernstein Original Music Composer Philip Yordan Screenplay Erskine Caldwell Novel Sidney Harmon Producer Jack Poplin Production Design
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