Movies will probably go on improving and broadening themselves; but in any event, The Grapes of Wrath is the most mature picture story that has ever been made, in feeling, in purpose, and in the use of the medium.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Joads step right out of the pages of the novel that has shocked millions!
1940 · 2h 9m · Approved
Drama
Directed by
John Ford
Overview
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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Top critics, in their words
Ford's admirers have rightly tended to play this down in favor of his later and more personal westerns, but there's much to admire here in Gregg Toland's sun-beaten photography and Henry Fonda's meticulous performance.
The Grapes of Wrath is possibly the best picture ever made from a so-so book.
It is an absorbing, tense melodrama, starkly realistic, and loaded with social and political fireworks.
Captures the stark plainness of the migrants, stripped to a few possessions, left with innumerable relations and little hope.
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