Description

The Southerner is a 1945 American film directed by Jean Renoir, based on the novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Original Music Score and Sound. Renoir was named Best Director by the National Board of Review Awards 1945, which also named the film the third best of 1945.

Future director Robert Aldrich was an assistant director on this film.
The filming location for the flood is below the site of where Millerton Lake is located today. The flood was created by releases from the then recently completed Friant Dam.

Cast

• Zachary Scott as Sam Tucker
• Betty Field as Nona Tucker
• J. Carrol Naish as Devers
• Beulah Bondi as Granny Tucker
• Percy Kilbride as Harmie
• Charles Kemper as Tim
• Blanche Yurka as Mama Tucker
• Norman Lloyd (actor) as Finlay
• Estelle Taylor as Lizzie
• Paul Harvey (actor) as Ruston
• Noreen Nash as Becky Devers
• Jack Norworth as Dr. White
• Nestor Paiva as Bartender
• Paul E. Burns as Uncle Pete Tucker
• Jay Gilpin as Jot Tucker
• Jean Vanderwilt as Daisy Tucker