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God's Little Acre (1958) [N/A]

Featuring:
Robert Ryan, Tina Louise, Aldo Ray

Written by:
Philip Yordan
Erskine Caldwell
Ben Maddow

Directed by:
Anthony Mann


Release Date:
September 23, 1958

Original Title:
God's Little Acre

Alternate Titles:
Божья делянка

Genres:
Comedy | Drama

Production Companies:
Security Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 118

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

Overview from TheMovieDB

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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Overview from Open Movies

A poor farmer is obsessed with finding gold on his land supposedly buried by his grandfather. To find it he conveniently moves a marker out of his way that designates the land on which it rests as as God's Little Acre, where anything that comes from the ground will go to God's work. Eventually he abducts an albino to help him find the gold. Meanwhile, his daughter-in-law is suspected of fooling around with a labor activist out of work since the mill closed, and a local political hopeful actively seeks his daughter's hand in marriage.

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Rankings and Honors

God's Little Acre (1958) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 6.5/10
Awards Won: 1 win & 2 nominations

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Production

Director:
Anthony Mann

Director of Photography:
Ernest Haller

Editor:
Richard C. Meyer

Lighting Technician:
Lloyd Garnell

Music Editor:
Robert Tracy

Novel:
Erskine Caldwell

Original Music Composer:
Elmer Bernstein

Producer:
Sidney Harmon

Production Design:
Jack Poplin

Screenplay:
Philip Yordan

Sound Editor:
Henry Adams

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