God's Little Acre

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

Sep 23 1958 Approved 1h 58m
Comedy, Drama, Romance

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.

Plot

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.

Written by

Philip Yordan, Erskine Caldwell, Ben Maddow

Directed by

Anthony Mann

Cast

Robert Ryan, Tina Louise, Aldo Ray

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Security Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

1 win & 2 nominations

Trailers
GOD'S LITTLE ACRE (1958) Trailer 1
Scores
# of Votes
2,287
Average Rating
6.5 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA