The Yearling [DVD]

Want to see how far we've slid down the slippery slope? Watch this movie.

Totally loved the movie.

I well remember seeing this movie from long, long ago, at a Saturday arvo matinee. It has always been active in my memory. I think I was about 12 years old then.....I am now 82 and fast approaching 83. A particular sequence in the movie really grabbed my attention. It was when the young girl's father got bitten by a rattle snake while searching for the missing young deer. I don't know why, but that scene has, for all these years, been hidden away in my memory and readily activates itself now and then. When I recently saw it on Amazon I just HAD to buy it.....and see it again. Needless to say (but, I will) the movie showed itself to be as I remembered it 68 years ago. Even now, my mind seems to be telling me to see it again....soon. You can be sure I will. So, all you readers / viewers out there, May I suggest that you buy a copy of this movie, sit down with your children and watch how much they enjoy it......Just as you will too.

Such a good movie with star actors!

Warner Archive releases this beloved, fondly remembered family film from 1946 and based on a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman as the Baxters, who live as crop-planting pioneers in the Florida Everglades in the late 1870's with their young, lonely son Jody(excellently played by Claude Jarman Jr. in a powerful performance) who befriends an orphaned pet fawn he names Flag, whom he has some happy times with until Flag grows too big and hungry, eating their corn crops until a drastic, tragic solution must be made...Looking superb in HD, a huge upgrade from the 2002 snapper case DVD in a 4K restoration that brings the color to sparkling life like never before. Porting over the theatrical trailer and a Tom & Jerry cartoon, omitting the trivia sections but instead including a radio adaptation presentation with Gregory Peck.Would love to see Warner Archive release similar animal-themed films like "Lassie Come Home", "Son Of Lassie", Courage Of Lassie" and "Hills Of Home" for example.

Peck leaves plenty of room for others of lesser standing. This is the first movie I remember. I must have been about 3 when my Mom and several Aunts took me to a wood clad building smelling of cigarette smoke and old beer, with a flat floor and folding chairs. There was a black curtain we walked through to get inside and the walls were painted black. It must have been 20 feet from that curtain to the screen. When the movie started,a person could barely see the figures on the screen, but I could here the sound. The 16 mm film was scratchy, but you could make out the words for the most part. This Blu-Ray rendering is way above that. No CG. Everything shown is practical. To capture the joy of running through the forest with your pet deer is almost without comprehension. We lived in north central Washington State where deer came by our ranch cabin and you could hardly go outside with out encountering a rattler. We got our water from a spring and had to carry it in the house to use. Except for being in Washington and the movie being in Florida, many things locked this movie into my mind. The scenery is wonderful and so are the sunsets. An undeveloped Florida depicted in the film engages your mind. Yes, people lived that way.

A classic. Get your kids to watch it instead of violent movies

I read the book in seventh grade but only got around to watching the movie now (57 years later). I was surprised at how beautifully made and moving it is. Sure, "Jody" overacts at times (probably with the encouragement of the director), but his naturalness and sincerity shine through. Jane Wyman is superb as the chilly mother who finally softens at the end. A very young Gregory Peck already shows some of the mannerisms that became more marked as he grew older, but the empathy between him and his son is remarkably unforced and touching.The bear fight in the film probably wouldn't be allowed nowadays! Real hunting dogs getting hurt by a real bear! The scene of deer running parallel to Jody and his pet yearling through the Florida woodlands, while an orchestration based on a theme by Felix Mendelssohn plays, is magnificent...Technicolor at its finest. In fact the color is so crisp I wonder if the movie has been restored or remastered in some way? The last half hour is deeply touching without being sappy...practically guaranteed to bring tears and a lump in the throat.Nice to see Hollywood handle a classic work of literature with taste and honesty.

Very good scenes, good effect, clear views, emotional story, worth to have and keep it!

tres tres beaux

Fantastic vintage movie making with great transfer quality.

a classic

i am a big fan of the old films and gregory peck is one of my favorite actors and i love this film, i taped it off the t.v the tape is getting old now and want to buy the dvd only its not available in europe so i have to get the region 1 encoding but thats ok as i have a multi regional dvd player. i watched this film with my son who is ten and he loved it but he did cry at the end, though he told me he had something in his eye. this film is a timeless classic and should be available to the european market