Jean Renoir's "The Southerner" (1945) [Full Movie, HD]

The Southerner opens, after a brief introduction of the main characters with family photos, on fields of cotton that look like the sea. People work in the hot sun, and you feel the heat, you hear the bird sounds and the smell the earth. You are there. A man collapses. He is the uncle of Zachary Scott's Sam Tucker. Sam and his wife Nona (Betty Field) tend to this man, who is dying. “Grow your own crop,” he counsels before he passes on. It's clear from the way Renoir shoots the landscape that he knows the earth is eternal...