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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"
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.
- Original title
- Tobacco Road
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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CinemaSerf
Dec 22, 2024 · via TMDB
Charley Grapewin's "Jeeter" is the epitome of the collapsed grandeur of the once prosperous tobacco road in Georgia. Formerly the hub of cotton and tobacco growing, it's now largely dilapidated with those left scrounging and scraping to make any kind of living. Until now, they have been fortunate as the last major landowner had given them the rights to live on the land, but just as his son "Capt. Tim" (Dana Andrews) arrives so does the bank in the form of manager "Payne" (Grant Mitchell) who informs them all that unless he can raise a rent of $100 per annum, they are going to redevelop the properties. It turns out that the captain is just as broke as the farmers, so they have to find a way to raise the cash or be prepared to move on. There's one possible solution, though. The not-so-angelically voiced "Bessie" (Marjorie Rambeau) might just be able to scrape together the cash from a recent life insurance payout to float them for long enough for the erstwhile disparate family to start planting/picking again. Then again, maybe she will just marry "Dude" (William Tracy) and buy him a new car? It's quite a fun ensemble effort this that certainly plays to rather dumb stereotype at times, but still allows Grapewin to rule the roost engagingly whilst Gene Tierney's "Ellie May" gets herself into all sorts of scrapes trying not to be a pawn in a daft marriage game. It flows along quite naturally with some light-heartedness to underpin the clear message that this is an industry left to die by a government little interested in the affairs of these plantations or their residents. You'll never remember it, but it's an easy enough watch.
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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
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Luke Cosgrave
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Francis Ford
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John 'Skins' Miller
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Robert Shaw
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John Ford
Director
Barbara McLean
Editor
Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer
Nunnally Johnson
Screenplay
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The Crowd
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Eyes Wide Shut
Happy as Lazzaro
Candy
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Slender Thread
The Country Girl
1945
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The Show-Off
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Shadowlands
Same Kind of Different as Me
Belle Époque
Serial (Bad) Weddings
Antichrist
The Idle Rich
Spite Marriage
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Their First Mistake
The Marriage of Figaro
The Good Girl
My Uncle Benjamin
Too Young to Marry
Marrying the Mafia
Three O'Clock on a Rainy Afternoon
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Johnny Lingo
Happily Ever After
Safe Passage
Fidelity
Deep Water
Counterparts
License to Wed
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On the Edge
Evan Almighty
Agent Mr. Chan
I Am a Sex Addict
The Infernal Trio
The Lady Banker
The Best Men
Country Cuzzins
The Way Home
Strange Planet
Table for Six 2
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Private Snuffy Smith
Koskenkylän laulu
Honey Bee 2: Celebrations
Naiskohtaloita
Wildfire
The Guest
Little Women Big Cars 2
Atlanta Vampire Movie
Please, Smile
Taghiyev III: Sona
Merayakan Pernikahan
In Cold Blood
Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
American Madness
Bank of Dave
Tyler Perry's A Madea Homecoming
Lady Macbeth
The Village
Thin Ice
The Spitfire Grill
Dead Man's Wire
Over Your Dead Body
Friendship
Somewhere in Queens
The Joneses
Heatwave
SubUrbia
Uncorked
Undertow
Clear History
The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning
Judy & Punch
...All the Marbles
Die My Love
Irresistible
The Details
Playing God
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CQ
Feb 20, 1941
