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Texas | Migrant Farmworker
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Best Feature Film | 1946
Best Music Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | 1946
Best Sound Recording | 1946
Best Director | 1946
Based on the novel "Hold Autumn in your Hand", by George Sessions Perry, which won the first National Book Award in 1941.
This film earned legendary director Jean Renoir his only Best Director Oscar nomination.
The medical term for "spring sickness" mentioned in the film is pellagra, which is caused by a dietary deficiency in niacin (vitamin B3).
The film was banned on its release by the Memphis Board of Censors, which claimed it gave "a false impression of the South."
The calendar depicted throughout shows dates for 1944.
"Granny: Sam Tucker. My own grandson, gone crazy as a bedbug."
"Tim: All you farmers is just the same. Gamblers! That's what you all are, to a man. Year after year you starve yourself to death and hope that some fine day - well, I think you're loco."
