Characters & Themes
Tobacco Road (1941) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1941 · 84 mins · English
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- Directed by
- John Ford
- Starring
- Ward Bond, Irving Bacon, Slim Summerville, Charles Halton, Dana Andrews, Francis Ford
Directed by the team behind “The Grapes of Wrath”, the film follows Jeeter Lester, a lazy yet endearing sharecropper, and his family as they eke out a living on ancestral Georgia soil that once belonged to prosperous planters. Their comic, precarious existence is jeopardized when a bank moves to seize the land for more lucrative agriculture.
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