The Yearling

Just as moving—and successful—was The Yearling (1946), based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s novel about a boy who raises a fawn as a pet but then has to kill the animal when it begins to eat his poverty-stricken family’s crops. Gregory Peck was cast as the sympathetic father and Jane…

…Duel in the Sun (1946), The Yearling (1946), and Yellow Sky (1948).