Tobacco Road

ON THE SCREEN AT LAST! The Picture you've waited eight years to see...Picturized by the men who gave you "GRAPES OF WRATH"

Tobacco Road (1941)

ComedyDrama

Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.

Director: John Ford
Writer: Nunnally Johnson

Release Date: 1941-02-20
Status: Released
Run time: 84 min / 1:24
Production Company : 20th Century Fox
Production Country: United States of America

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Casts

Charley Grapewin
Jeeter Lester
Marjorie Rambeau
Sister Bessie Rice
Gene Tierney
Ellie May Lester
William Tracy
Dude Lester
Elizabeth Patterson
Ada Lester
Dana Andrews
Capt. Tim Harmon
Slim Summerville
Henry Peabody
Ward Bond
Lov Bensey
Grant Mitchell
George Payne
Zeffie Tilbury
Grandma Lester
Russell Simpson
Chief of Police
Spencer Charters
County Clerk
Irving Bacon
Bank Teller
Harry Tyler
Car Salesman
Charles Halton
Mayor
George Chandler
Hotel Desk Clark
Dorothy Adams
Susie Mae (uncredited)
Mae Marsh
County Clerk's Assistant (uncredited)
Jack Pennick
Policeman
Erville Alderson
Luke Cosgrave
Francis Ford
David Hughes
John "Skins" Miller
Robert Shaw

Crew

Art James Basevi Art Direction
Directing John Ford Director
Writing Nunnally Johnson Screenplay
Production Darryl F. Zanuck Producer
Art Richard Day Art Direction
Art Thomas Little Set Decoration
Editing Barbara McLean Editor
Camera Arthur C. Miller Director of Photography
Sound David Buttolph Music
Writing Erskine Caldwell Novel
Writing Jack Kirkland Theatre Play

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