Tobacco Road (1941)
ON THE SCREEN AT LAST! The Picture you've waited eight years to see...Picturized by the men who gave you "GRAPES OF WRATH"
84 min
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.
- Release date
- February 20, 1941
- Country of origin
- United States
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Cast
- Charley Grapewin as Jeeter Lester
- Marjorie Rambeau as Sister Bessie
- Gene Tierney as Ellie May
- William Tracy as Dude Lester
- Elizabeth Patterson as Ada Lester
- Dana Andrews as Captain Tim
- Slim Summerville as Peabody
- Ward Bond as Lov
- Grant Mitchell as George Payne
- Zeffie Tilbury as Grandma
- Russell Simpson as Chief of Police
- Spencer Charters as County Clerk
- Irving Bacon as Bank Teller
- Harry Tyler as Car Salesman
- Charles Halton as Mayor
- George Chandler as Hotel Desk Clark
- Dorothy Adams as Susie Mae (uncredited)
- Mae Marsh as County Clerk's Assistant (uncredited)
- Jack Pennick as Policeman
- Erville Alderson
- Luke Cosgrave
- Francis Ford
- John 'Skins' Miller
- Robert Shaw
Crew
- John Ford · Director
- Nunnally Johnson · Writer
- Jack Kirkland · Writer
- Erskine Caldwell · Writer
- Darryl F. Zanuck · Producer
- David Buttolph · Composer
- Arthur C. Miller · Cinematographer
- Barbara McLean · Editor