The Yearling

The Yearling (1946)

  • 100% of critics liked it
    (12 reviews)

  • 70% of users liked it
    (3,565 ratings)

Based on the novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling is set in post-Civil War Florida. Claude Jarman Jr. plays Jody Baxter, the lonely son of just-getting-by farmers Pa and Ma Baxter (Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman). With all of his siblings dead and buried, Jody yearns to have a pet of some… More

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G, 2 hr. 8 min.
Directed By
Clarence Brown
Genres
Classics, Kids & Family
In Theaters
Dec 18, 1946 Wide
On DVD
Sep 3, 2002
MGM Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Nell Minow, Common Sense Media

    Thoughtful adaptation of the prize-winning novel.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    A heart-warming 19th-century family drama about surviving in the Florida wilderness.

  • Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com

    Family classic, beautifully realized, involving a pet deer.

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    Along with Lassie Come Home, this is one of MGM's classic family-animal melodramas, based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' novel, beautifully acted by Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman and Claude Jarman Jr.(in his debut), with strong production values (in color).

  • Carol Cling, Las Vegas Review-Journal

    Classy family classic of the old school.

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  • KJ P


    WOW! FANTASTIC! Good thing OZ was made in year 1939, because that would have stolen the prize but, I have to say that this movie is comparable to the Wizard of Oz!

  • Leigh R


    Wow... I so cried at the end.

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