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After invaded in 1940, French director Jean Renoir came to Hollywood where he directed six American films in the 1940s. While La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939) are two of the greatest French films of all time, director Renoir seemed to be out of his element directing this film about farming in the American South. It's a painfully wholesome and old-fashioned movie about a poor Texas farmer struggling to make a living. Renoir was so focused on capturing the American everyman, that he neglected to craft a compelling story or characters. His leads Zachary Scott and Betty Field lack acting charisma, and their failure to generate drama was condemned as representing Southern people as dim-witted. It's also a bleak look at farming life where around every turn is another catastrophe that makes our hero want to give up. Viewers may want to give up on him too. While its depiction of rural and small-town life was viewed as irable at the time, today it's conventional and dull. 422w6k
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The Southerner is a 1945 American film directed by Jean Renoir, based on the 1941 novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry. The film received Oscar nominations for Best Director, Original Music Score and Sound. Renoir was named Best Director by the National Board of Review, which also named the film the third best of 1945. Future director Robert Aldrich was an assistant director on this film. Filming location for 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.
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