God's Little Acre
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62% Critic Match

God's Little Acre

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

6.2 / 10 1958 1h 58mNR English
DramaComedy

Storyline

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.

Cast & Crew

Robert Ryan

Robert Ryan

Ty Ty Walden

Lead
Jack Lord

Jack Lord

Buck Walden

Tina Louise

Tina Louise

Griselda Walden, Ty Ty's daughter-in-law

Aldo Ray

Aldo Ray

Bill Thompson

Buddy Hackett

Buddy Hackett

Pluto Swint, Sheriff Candidate

Fay Spain

Fay Spain

Darlin' Jill

Vic Morrow

Vic Morrow

Shaw Walden

Helen Westcott

Helen Westcott

Rosamund

What People Are Saying

4.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Anthony Mann's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. God's Little Acre is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker