What had Robert Duvall been doing between Mocking Bird and The Godfather, I mused? Well, he had appeared in MASH (the film) but otherwise was in lots of TV, stuff like The Time Tunnel, working hard, waiting for a big chance. This was clearly an independent production - the only name I recognised in the cast and crew was sound engineer Dick Vorisek.
It's written by Mocking Bird's Horton Foote, based on a William Faulkner story. A lonely caretaker takes in a homeless pregnant woman Olga Bellin, adopts her, so to speak. She dies after birth and despite bringing the boy up single-handed, he is taken away by his surviving family. It's a real tragedy.
There's an automobile in the beginning (and ending) of this Mississippi set tale, but you wouldn't know the time period from the rest of the film, which takes place on foot, horseback or cart.
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