The Yearling (film)

The Yearling 1946 is a Technicolor family film drama directed by Clarence Brown, produced by Sidney Franklin, and released by MetroGoldwynMayer. The screenplay by Paul Osborn and John Lee Mahin uncredited was adapted from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlingss novel of the same name. The film stars Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman, Jr., Chill Wills, and Forrest Tucker.

Ezra Penny Baxter Gregory Peck, once a Confederate soldier, and his wife Ora Jane Wyman, are pioneer farmers near Lake George, Florida in 1878. Their son, Jody Claude Jarman, Jr., a boy in his preteen years, is their only surviving child. Jody has a wonderful relationship with his warm and loving father. Ora, however, is still haunted by the deaths of the three other children of the family. She is very somber, and is afraid that Jody will end up dying if she shows her parental love to him. Jody finds her somewhat unloving and unreasonable.With all of his siblings dead and buried, Jody longs for a pet to play with and care for. Penny is sympathetic and understanding, but Ora is disgusted. One day, when a rattlesnake bites Penny, they kill a doe and use its organs to draw out the poison. Jody asks to adopt the does orphaned fawn. Penny permits it, but warns Jody that the fawn will have to be set free when it grows up. ........

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