Charley Grapewin
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Tobacco Road is a 1941 American comedy drama film directed by John Ford and starring Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney and William Tracy. It was based on the 1932 novel of the same name by Erskine Caldwell and the 1933 Broadway play that Jack Kirkland adapted from the novel.
Tobacco Road: Directed by John Ford. With Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy. Hillbilly family farm life in 1941 rural Georgia.
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- Comedy, Drama
- John Ford
- 1941-03-07
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.
The downtrodden Lester family lives in rural Georgia on once-prosperous farm land, now fallow, which lies alongside the old tobacoo road. The head of the family is Jeeter, a shiftless man who is always making grand plans but never following through with them.
- John Ford, Gene Bryant, Edward O'fearna
- Marjorie Rambeau
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Overview. 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. John Ford.
