Based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1939 novel, the story follows an Oklahoma family's escape from the dust bowl to join the migration to California's fruit harvest.
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Review
Entertainment Weekly, 04/09/2004, p.70, "It's gorgeous, jaw-dropping work, rivaling Toland's deep-focus artistry in CITIZEN KANE." USA Today, 04/09/2004, p.10E, "As son Tom Joad, Henry Fonda gave the screen performance of his career." Uncut, 05/01/2005, p.144, "[T]he director's most artistic work..." Uncut, 01/01/2006, p.84-85, Ranked #17 in Uncut's Best DVDs Of 2005 -- "One of Ford's most beautiful films, and Fonda's performance is an essay in layered minimalism..."
Title Note
THE GRAPES OF WRATH was an original selection to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1989.
Release Note
DVD Features: The remastered Foxvideo laserdisc (Cat. #0896680) also contains the original theatrical trailer.
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John Ford's memorable screen version of John Steinbeck's epic novel of the Great Depression--often regarded as the director's best film--stars Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. After having served a brief prison sentence for manslaughter, Joad arrives at his family's Oklahoma farm only to find it abandoned. Muley (John Qualen), a neighbor now nearly mad with grief, tells Tom of the drought that has transformed the farmland of Oklahoma into a desert and of the preying land agents who have plowed under the shacks of the sharecroppers. Joined by former hellfire preacher Casy (John Carradine), Tom finds his extended family, including Pa (Charles Grapewin) and his indomitable Ma (Jane Darwell), packing their ramshackle truck to seek work in the fields of California. As the family treks across the country, their dissolution begins with the deaths of Tom's grandparents at close intervals. When they arrive in California, the Joads find only an abundance of poverty-stricken migrants like themselves and little in the way of potential work. Yet, ever resilient, they maintain their dignity, hoping for the best.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews  grapes, June 3, 2008
By jnag
Truly one of the greatest films to come out of the first half of the 20th
century. Henry Fonda plays Tom Joad and manages to keep everyone on the edge of
their seat whilst watching the movie.
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