Based on the 1941 novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry, Sam Tucker is a cotton picker in Texas who decides to start his own farm. He and wife Nona, Granny and children Jot and Daisy set out with nothing but two mules and a bit of seed.

• The Southerner
• Jean Renoir
• Zachary Scott
• Betty Field
• J Carrol Naish