The Yearling | |
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![]() Theatrical release poster designed by Douglass Crockwell (November 1946) | |
Directed by | Clarence Brown |
Screenplay by | Paul Osborn |
Based on | The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
Produced by | Sidney Franklin |
Starring | Gregory Peck Jane Wyman Claude Jarman Jr. |
Cinematography | Arthur Arling Charles Rosher Leonard Smith |
Edited by | Harold F. Kress |
Music by | Herbert Stothart arrangement of Frederick Delius's music |
Color process | Technicolor |
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Distributed by | Loew's, Inc. |
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Running time | 128 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $3,883,000[1][2] |
Box office | $7,599,000[3] |
The Yearling is a 1946 American Family Western film directed by Clarence Brown, produced by Sidney Franklin, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). The screenplay by Paul Osborn and John Lee Mahin (uncredited) was adapted from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's 1938 novel of the same name. The film stars Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr., Chill Wills, and Forrest Tucker.
The story follows a boy named Jodie, who adopts a trouble-making young deer. The story was later adapted as the 1994 TV film The Yearling starring Peter Strauss and Jean Smart.[4]