Life abounds in the 1870s Florida scrubland that's home to young Jody Baxter. There are bears to hunt, cash crops to plant, evenings of storytelling with Pa and Ma... and there are timeless lessons of love and letting go that Jody learns from Flag, the orphaned pet fawn that follows him around with devotion.
Form Marjorie Kinnan Rawling's pulitzer Prize-winning novel and sensitively directed by Clarence Brown (National Velvet), The Yearling is superb family entertainment that knows well what a shiny harmonica means to a lonely boy or what a six-dain means to hard-luck farmers. Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman Awards and the winner of two*, plus a Special Awad for the year's Outstanding Child Actor to young Jarman.