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Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Drama
Release Date:March 15, 1940
Running time:128 minutes
Cast:Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon
Director:John Ford
Producer:Darryl F. Zanuck
Writer:Nunnally Johnson, John Steinbeck
Distributor:Twentieth Century Fox Film Cor

Description: Tom Joad returns from prison, where he was serving time for manslaughter, to his family's Oklahoma farm and finds the house abandoned. Muley, his half-crazed neighbor, tells Tom about the recent dispossession of the sharecroppers, who have been driven out by drought and the greedy land companies. Tom finally locates his family as they are about to pack their belongings on a dilapidated truck and head West, lured by promises of work and high wages in California. Joined by their friend Casy, a former fire and brimstone preacher, the Joads begin their long trek west on Route 66.

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