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- 20th Century30s
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- CaliforniaOklahomaUSA
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The Grapes of Wrath, 1940
English
USA
Profile of The Grapes of Wrath
The mood of The Grapes of Wrath is bleak, emotional, and gloomy. The plot centers around the working class, immigrants, and being down on your luck. It is a drama and period movie. Stylistically, The Grapes of Wrath has a Hollywood tone and has a road movie structure. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is Oklahoma and California. The Grapes of Wrath happens in the 1930s. Visually, it is black and white. It is based on a book. The Grapes of Wrath is known for being a classic, a masterpiece, and an Oscar winner.
Summary of The Grapes of Wrath
John Ford's memorable screen version of John Steinbeck's epic novel of the Great Depression--often regarded as the director's best film--stars Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. After having served a brief prison sentence for manslaughter, Joad arrives at his family's Oklahoma farm only to find it abandoned. Muley (John Qualen), a neighbor now nearly mad with grief, tells Tom of the drought that has transformed the farmland of Oklahoma into a desert and of the preying land agents who have plowed under the shacks of the sharecroppers. Joined by former hellfire preacher Casy (John Carradine), Tom finds his extended family, including Pa (Charles Grapewin) and his indomitable Ma (Jane Darwell), packing their ramshackle truck to seek work in the fields of California. As the family treks across the country, their dissolution begins with the deaths of Tom's grandparents at close intervals. When they arrive in California, the Joads find only an abundance of poverty-stricken migrants like themselves and little in the way of potential work. Yet, ever resilient, they maintain their dignity, hoping for the best.
Among the talented cast, Fonda does perhaps the best work of his career, as does Qualen in the film's most haunting sequence. Director of photography Gregg Toland captures the suffering and the weathered, luminous nobility of the Joads and the other uprooted, drifting families, creating striking images equal to the best work of Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans. In a stirring film that stands as a microcosm of the depression experience of millions, Ford gives poverty a human face in a way that was rare then and even rarer in the decades to follow as Hollywood films with a sense of class consciousness dwindled like a species nearing extinction.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 24 January 1940 |
| Runtime: | 128 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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Cast and Crew
as Tom Joad
as Ma Joad
as Casy
as Grandpa
as Rosasharn
as Pa Joad
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- 19.September.2012
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- by: Andrew
- Andrew rated this movie
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- 09.October.2009
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- by: Ethan Clapham
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