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The Grapes of Wrath

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The Grapes of Wrath
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NR,2hrs 9min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
March 15, 1940
Director:
John Ford
Distributor:
Twentieth Century Fox Film Cor
Starring:
Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine  ...more
Synopsis: The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time Oscar-winning director John Ford starred Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, who opens the movie returning to his Oklahoma home after serving jail time for manslaughter. En route, Tom meets family friend Casey (John Carradine), a former preacher who warns Tom that dust storms, crop failures, and new agricultural methods have financially decimated the once prosperous Oklahoma farmland. ... Full Synopsis
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Bruce Eder, AMG Review
John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath is arguably the director's greatest movie, and the rare Hollywood film superior to its literary source (a view shared by the novel's author, John Steinbeck). Indeed, it is the movie that sums up the impact of the Great Depression, at least on rural America, better than any other film of its time (and there were hundreds that tried, by everyone from Frank Capra to Preston ... Full Review
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Henry Fonda
Tom Joad
Jane Darwell
Ma Joad
John Carradine
Casey, Jim Casey
Charles Grapewin
Grandpa Joad
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