
Tobacco Road (1941)
6.6|20 Feb, 1941|84 min
ON THE SCREEN AT LAST! The Picture you've waited eight years to see...Picturized by the men who gave you "GRAPES OF WRATH"
6.6|20 Feb, 1941|84 min
Released
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Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
Keywords
banker
marriage
georgia
hillbilly
backwoods
sharecropper
Casts

Charley Grapewin
Jeeter Lester

Marjorie Rambeau
Sister Bessie Rice

Gene Tierney
Ellie May Lester

William Tracy
Dude Lester

Elizabeth Patterson
Ada Lester

Dana Andrews
Capt. Tim Harmon

Slim Summerville
Henry Peabody

Ward Bond
Lov Bensey
Grant Mitchell
George Payne

Zeffie Tilbury
Grandma Lester

Russell Simpson
Chief of Police

Spencer Charters
County Clerk

Irving Bacon
Bank Teller

Harry Tyler
Car Salesman

Charles Halton
Mayor

George Chandler
Hotel Desk Clark

Dorothy Adams
Susie Mae (uncredited)

Mae Marsh
County Clerk's Assistant (uncredited)

Jack Pennick
Policeman

Erville Alderson

Luke Cosgrave

Francis Ford
David Hughes

John 'Skins' Miller

Robert Shaw
Crews

John Ford
Director
Erskine Caldwell
Novel
Jack Kirkland
Theatre Play

Nunnally Johnson
Screenplay
Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer
David Buttolph
Music
Barbara McLean
Editor
James Basevi
Art Direction
Richard Day
Art Direction
Thomas Little
Set Decoration
Arthur C. Miller
Director of Photography
Backdrops & Posters



