God's Little Acre, 1958 full film

Widower Ty Ty Walden and three of his children (sons Buck and Shaw and daughter Darlin' Jill), live in the backwoods of Georgia during the Great Depression. Buck's comely wife Griselda also lives with the family. Ty Ty's daughter Rosamund lives in the town of Peachtree Valley with her millworker husband Will. The final member of the Walden family is estranged son Jim Leslie, also a widower, who is a wealthy cotton broker living in the city of Augusta.

Ty Ty is a farmer who has been digging fruitlessly on his land for 15 years, searching for the treasure his grandfather left him. Consequently, the farm has suffered from many years' neglect.

Pluto Swint arrives to announce he's running for sheriff. Swint is invited to come around back where Darlin' Jill is taking a bath in an outdoor bathtub positioned near a handpump and spigot. Knowing Swint is attracted to her, she teases him and asks him to pump some more water, and although Swint is asked to keep his eyes closed, he sneaks a peek.

In the belief that having an albino with him in his quest for treasure will bring him great fortune, Ty Ty transports and wrongfully imprisons Dave Dawson, demanding that he help him locate the buried treasure. Dawson, using a divining rod, claims the gold lies on the parcel of land Ty Ty has designated as "God's Little Acre." Ty Ty pulls the cross marker out of the ground, explaining that God told him to move it, thereby absolving him from giving any gold found in this new spot to the church. Darlin' Jill seduces Dawson one night and the next day a field worker, Uncle Felix, chases him away at gunpoint saying "I ain't going to shoot you, son, but this gun might."

The digging-for-gold project has interrupted farming and Ty Ty needs money to feed the family and workers. At Felix's suggestion, he goes to his son Jim Leslie's mansion to ask for a loan. An arrogant Jim Leslie gives him the money, but he also makes a pass at his sister-in-law Griselda and vows to make her his own.

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