beautifully shot and absorbing film about the close knit tucker clan sam ( zachary scott ) and the handsome dad who love be a farmer and nona ( betty field ) and a good wife and mother who always seem to look well groom in spite of her hard work and two really cute kid and and then there ornery old granny ( beulah bondi ) and she of the sharp tongue and stubborn will . in a gorgeously photograph scene where they be work for hire in the bright and sunlit field pick cotton the couple watch a their uncle die in the field say in his last breath grow your own crop and and they decide to do just that . soon they have rent a property where they can raise cotton and be their own master and so to speak well and the house turn out to be nothing but a broken down and ramshackle shack and the whole place need load and load of work but one good thing it have good earth . trouble ensue trouble with the neighbor and trouble get food and sickness trouble and weather trouble and oh brother . well and this be an excellent and heartfelt and and well photograph film do in an unusual and distinctive style . the actor who play the tucker family do a good job in make this actually seem like a real family and make you want to root for them but it be beulah bondi a cantankerous granny who really steal this film for me i really enjoy her scene and think they add a little spice to this . the hardship this clan have to go through can be hard to watch sometimes and but the story be involve and the film be quite memorable .