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The Grapes of Wrath

  • Film
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Time Out says

This classic Ford film eclipses much of the action of John Steinbeck's well-known novel of the Oklahoma farmers' migration from the dustbowl to the California Eden during the Depression years. The Okies were unwelcome in California, of course; they threatened the jobs of the locals. The brutal police hassled and harassed them unmercifully. The migrants formed unions in self-defence and struck for decent fruit-picking wages. This inevitably multiplied the official violence. Ford's film, shot by Gregg Toland with magnificent, lyrical simplicity, captures the stark plainness of the migrants, stripped to a few possessions, left with innumerable relations and little hope.
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Release Details

  • Duration:129 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:John Ford
  • Screenwriter:Nunnally Johnson
  • Cast:
    • Henry Fonda
    • Jane Darwell
    • John Carradine
    • Russell Simpson
    • Charley Grapewin
    • Dorris Bowden
    • John Qualen
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