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The Grapes of Wrath (1940),
Director: John Ford, rated Approved
The Joads step
right out of the pages of the novel that has shocked millions!
 Starring: Henry
Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon, Russell
Simpson, John Qualen, Grant Mitchell, Ward Bond
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★★★★
- perfect
DML Top 50
#28 -
Dad's Full (Spoiler) Review
and Deep Dive of The Grapes of
Wrath
"If I was to pray, I'd
pray for folks that's alive and don't know which way to turn." -
Jim "Preacher" Casy
Why watch this? The
Great Depression left a deep scar on an entire American
generation.
Dad's Review:
This is the great film, from the great novel about
the Great Depression. After the collapse of the banking system
in America, men lost jobs, farmers went broke and families were
starving. The poorest of the poor, from places like Enid,
Oklahoma or Mena, Arkansas, loaded up everything they had and
headed West to find work in the fields of California. This is
the painful odyssey of America's forgotten, as seen through the
brilliant lens of legendary director John Ford.
Darryl F. Zanuck,
Nunnally Johnson; 20th Century Fox
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