From Novel to Movie: The Yearling in Florida | Preview

The documentary provides a unique look back at the classic Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel, The Yearling by the late Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the subsequent classic MGM Oscar-winning film by the same name 75 years later with memories in film and commentary by not only the Oscar-winning child actor Claude Jarman, Jr., but many of the Florida folks who worked on the film in the Ocala National Forest of Florida in the 1940s. Their memories and home movie clips from the filming by the late Oscar winner Gregory Peck weave a colorful story. Watch Thursday at 8 p.m. on WUCF!