Clarence Brown directed this award-winning adaptation of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Pulitzer Prize-winning story about a poor pioneer family struggling to eke out a living in the Florida backwoods--and the coming of age of a young boy. After the Civil War, the Baxter family struggles to maintain its meager existence in the wake of family tragedy. All the Baxter children--except for 11-year-old Jody (Claude Jarman Jr.)--have died, leaving Ma (Jane Wyman) embittered and cold and Jody exceptionally lonely. Penny Baxter (Gregory Peck) works hard to make his wife and son happy. When a rattlesnake bites Penny, he's forced to kill a deer in order to obtain an antitoxin from its innards. Jody instantly befriends the animal's orphaned fawn, and the two play together in the woods. But as the fawn becomes a yearling, it turns (however unintentionally) destructive, forever breaking into the small garden on which the family depends for food and money. The family is then forced to make a potentially tragic choice. This exceptional family classic was beautifully shot on location in the Florida Everglades and features outstanding lead performances from its award-winning cast.

THE YEARLING is the classic, touching story of a lonely boy who adopts a young fawn. Later, when the animal's appetite threatens the family's meager crops, the boy's father is forced to make a painful decision.

Claude Jarman Jr., awarded a special Oscar for Outstanding Child Actor, received a miniature statuette.

DVD Features:

Region 1
Snap Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Single Side - Dual Layer

Gregory Peck: Oscar winning American actor, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)
Jane Wyman: Oscar winning American actress, THE LOST WEEKEND, JOHNNY BEL
Claude Jarman: 
Chill Wills: American Character Actor
Clem Bevans: American Actor
Margaret Wycherly: British Actress
Henry Travers: British Character Actor
Forrest Tucker: Sargeant Moran O'Rourke of TV's "F Troop"

Clarence Brown: American Director/Producer, THE YEARLING (1946)

Sidney Franklin: American Director/Producer

Herbert Stothart: American Composer/Arranger

Harold F. Kress: American Editor/Director