The Grapes of Wrath

August 28th, 2008

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The Grapes of Wrath

Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama
Release Year: 1940
Country: USA
Runtime: 128
Rating: 5.5 (0)
Languages: English
Director: John Ford
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
  • The thousands who have read the book will know why WE WILL NOT SELL ANY CHILDREN TICKETS to see this picture!
  • The Joads step right out of the pages of the novel that has shocked millions !
  • The most discussed book in years - now comes to the screen to become the most discussed picture in ages

    • Writing by: Nunnally Johnson - (screenplay)
    John Steinbeck - (novel "The Grapes of Wrath")

    Produced by: Nunnally Johnson - associate producer
    Darryl F. Zanuck - producer

    Cast: Henry Fonda - Tom Joad
    Jane Darwell - Ma Joad
    John Carradine - Casy
    Charley Grapewin - Grandpa
    Dorris Bowdon - Rosasharn
    Russell Simpson - Pa Joad
    O.Z. Whitehead - Al
    John Qualen - Muley
    Eddie Quillan - Connie
    Zeffie Tilbury - Grandma
    Frank Sully - Noah

    Music: Julien Civange
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    Plot Outline: A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
    Plot: Oklahoma in the Thirties is a dustbowl and dispossessed farmers migrate westward to California. After terrible trials en route they become little more than slave labor. Among the throng are the Joads who refuse to knuckle under.

    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    At the films very end, after the final credits, Altimarano gives the audience an ambiguous, almost accusing look, as if he were asking it, "Would you or would you not have done this?"

    Goofs: We know about 3 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Revealing mistakes: When the Joads set out from the gas station to cross the desert, you see them pull away from the station twice.

    Trivia: There are 24 entries in the trivia list - like these:
    • The production had a fake working title, "Highway 66", so that the shoot of the controversial novel would not be effected by union problems. Much of the dire straits portrayed in the film continued during and after the release of the movie.
    • John Steinbeck loved the movie and said that Henry Fonda as Tom Joad made him "believe my own words".
    • The film shot for seven weeks.


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