Tobacco Road

Year: 1941

Runtime: 84 mins

Language: English

Director: John Ford

DramaComedy

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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