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God's Little Acre is a 1958 American comedy-drama film of Erskine Caldwell's 1933 novel of the same name. [3] [4] [5] It was directed by Anthony Mann and shot in black and white by cinematographer Ernest Haller. Although the film was not released until August 1958, its production schedule was indicated as September 11 to late October 1957. [6]
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 (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer. [1] [2] His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States, in novels such as Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933), won him critical acclaim.
His second project was a 1958 film adaptation of Erskine Caldwell's then-controversial novel God's Little Acre. Mann and producer Sidney Harmon had intended to film in Augusta, Georgia, but the novel's controversial subject matter heightened resistance from city leaders and local farmers. As a result, the production was denied permission to ...
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She first came to prominence with movie audiences in the late 1950s. In 1957, she appeared as Carol Smith with John Smith as Tommy Kelly in the dramatic film The Crooked Circle in which a young boxer is pressured to throw a fight. In 1958, she was cast as Darlin' Jill in the film version of God's Little Acre, based on Erskine Caldwell's novel
Labor strife at the Horse Creek Valley mills was a major theme of Erskine Caldwell's book God's Little Acre. After World War II, the industrial economy continued to decline until 2005, when the last mill left standing was impacted by the Graniteville Train Derailment. Nine people in the area were killed by an early morning chlorine spill.
In 1958, Lord co-starred as Buck Walden in God's Little Acre, [19] the film adaptation of Erskine Caldwell's 1933 novel. Lord was the first actor to play the character Felix Leiter [20] in the James Bond film series, introduced in 1962 in the first Bond film, Dr. No.