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God's Little Acre is a 1933 novel by Erskine Caldwell about a dysfunctional farming family in Georgia obsessed with sex and wealth. The novel's sexual themes were so controversial that the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice asked a New York state court to censor it.
- Erskine Preston Caldwell
- 1933
With Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Buddy Hackett, Jack Lord. In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their great-grandfather, but problems related to poverty, infidelity, unemployment, and booze threaten to destroy their family.
- (2.1K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Anthony Mann
- 1958-09-23
Ty Ty gazes upon his farmland filled with the massive holes dug over the past 15 years and declares he will stop digging for gold if God will protect his sons. Time passes. Pluto Swint is elected sheriff and is congratulated by his new fiancee, Darlin' Jill.
Oct 20, 2022 · This is a fully high definition copy of Anthony Mann's drama, starring Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray. I do not own the rights to the film, nor am I profiting from...
- 118 min
- 2.6K
- André Bourbeau
A devout man, he has set aside a small plot of land promising God anything that comes from it. With typical human frailty, he is prone to move God's Little Acre whenever he fears it may contain his fortune, an obvious allegory for the shifting faith we all suffer.
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.
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For the past fifteen years, Ty Ty has been mining for gold on his property. He has destroyed the rich land and the crop with his obsessive search for the precious metal. To ease his...
