Tobacco Road (1941)

NR02/20/1941Comedy, Drama1h 24m
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ON THE SCREEN AT LAST! The Picture you've waited eight years to see...Picturized by the men who gave you "GRAPES OF WRATH"

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.

Top Billed Cast

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    Charley Grapewin

    Jeeter Lester

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    Marjorie Rambeau

    Sister Bessie Rice

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    Gene Tierney

    Ellie May Lester

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    William Tracy

    Dude Lester

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    Elizabeth Patterson

    Ada Lester

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    Dana Andrews

    Capt. Tim Harmon

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    Slim Summerville

    Henry Peabody

  8. Cast 1

    Ward Bond

    Lov Bensey

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    Grant Mitchell

    George Payne

Charley Grapewin's "Jeeter" is the epitome of the collapsed grandeur of the once prosperous tobacco road in Georgia. Formerly the hub of cotton and tobacco growing, it's now largely dilapidated with those left scrounging and scraping to make any kind of living. Until now, they have been fortunate as the last major landowner had given them the rights to live on the land, but just as his son "Capt. Tim" (Dana Andrews) arrives so does the bank in the form of manager "Payne" (Grant Mitchell) who informs them all that unless he can raise a rent of $100 per annum, they are going to redevelop the pro...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

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