Posted on 02/23/2012 10:03:10 AM PST by dynachrome
The movie begins inside a small 10 foot by 16 foot one-room shanty or shack with a dirt floor. There is a pot-bellied stove in the shack for heating and cooking. There are three beds in the shack: one for the father, one for the mother, and one for their 12-year old daughter.
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He tells his family that the bank has accepted their life savings as a partial deposit on a small farm about twenty miles from the city. They will have to grow corn as a cash crop and use the money from the sale of that corn at the end of the summer to make the rest of the down payment deposit required by the bank so they can keep the farm.
snip. A few days later the daughter bursts into the cabin crying. She tells her parents she has found an injured baby deer in the woods a short ways from their cabin. She begs her parents to come and look at the deer. The girl begs her daddy to help the deer. Her father calmly explains to her that the deer is a danger to their farm because the deer will eat their crops and they could starve to death during the winter. The girl keeps crying and then she begs her mother to help the deer. The father says, "No." But the young girl and her mother keep insisting until the father finally agrees with the understanding that it will only be for three or four weeks until the deer can walk again. Both the wife and daughter quickly agree.
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He does not remember the name of the movie he saw. Maybe someone here does. I would like to see it.
Not “The Yearling” he says:
“The most popular and well known version of the above plot was made into a movie and it was filmed in color in 1946 by MGM and it was called “The Yearling.” It was based on a book written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The 1946 color movie won several academy awards.
The black and white movie I remember seeing in the 1960s was different than the 1946 color movie filmed by MGM. When I wrote the above summary of the movie I saw I was not trying to create a “new version” of an old story. My basic objective in writing the above summary was to encourage people to carefully consider their decisions if they are thrust into a new environment and to not simply rely on strategies that may have been successful in a totally different environment”.
Always plant enough for the deer.
Seed arrived late and without full crop yield family loses farm. Farmer made several bad decisions not just the deer.
Enjoy.
http://www.dogwork.com/ddsff4/
Nice vid!
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