God's Little Acre

God's Little Acre is a 1958 American film of Erskine Caldwell's 1933 novel. It was directed by Anthony Mann and shot in black and white by master cinematographer Ernest Haller. The film was as controversial as the novel, although unlike its source material there was no prosecution for obscenity. Though both book and film were laced throughout with racy innuendo calling into question the issue of marital fidelity, it was the film adaptation that may have been the more alarming, inasmuch as it portrayed a popular uprising - or Marxist insurrection - in the southern United States by laid-off millworkers trying to gain control of the factory equipment on which their jobs depended. Philip Yordan was officially given credit for the...