Tobacco road 1941 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Tobacco road succeeded on the basis of its title alone, even though no one expected the film to be anywhere near as earthy as the stage version it would have been impossible under prevailing censorship to include the plays famous opening scene, in which the family watches intently while a teenage girl masturbates. Tobacco road is a 1941 film directed by john ford and starring charley grapewin, marjorie rambeau, gene tierney, william tracy dana andrews and ward. Turner classic movies presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from one of the largest film libraries in the world. Find video, photos, forums, blogs and shop for some of. Rent tobacco road 1941 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. An incredible film where melodrama is mixed with the absurd and social commentary with humor. The lesters are about to be thrown off their land for nonpayment of rent, but anyone who tries to help them is chased away by the povertystricken but intenselyproud jeeter. See the descent of man, the human condition up close, and throw in a geek, please. The plot was rewritten for the film by nunnally johnson, however. Tobacco road 1941 john ford cast and crew allmovie.
Tobacco road is a 1941 film directed by john ford and starring charley grapewin, marjorie rambeau, gene tierney, william tracy dana andrews and ward bond. It opened in 1933 and even today only life with father has had a longer run for a nonmusical production. The lesters are about to be thrown off their land for. When john ford filmed tobacco road in 1941 the play was still running on broadway. Comedian fred allen spoofed this story as nicotine alley on a march 19, 1941 episode of texaco star theater. With charley grapewin, gene tierney, marjorie rambeau, william tracy. Tobacco road 1941 nightmare alley 1949 in the cutting room with editor barbara mclean. Tobacco road is a film directed by john ford with charley grapewin, marjorie rambeau, gene tierney, william tracy, year. In this film, charley grapewin stars as jeeter lester, shiftless patriarch of a large backwoods clan. It was based on the novel of the same name by erskine caldwell and the broadway play that jack kirkland adapted from the novel. Fords next film but one after the grapes of wrath, obviously intended by fox as a followup in the oscarwinning social conscience stakes, was generally castig. Tobacco road is een amerikaanse dramafilm uit 1941 onder regie van john ford. During filming it had been crashed into a 100yearold sycamore tree, then backed out of the debris and driven fast to jump over a 20foot stream with the aid of a ramp, and thereafter smashed through several fences, sideswiped a twoton truck forcing the truck off the road, rammed through a tool shed cut from final release, jumped a curb, splintered a park bench, rammed a station.
Jack benny also satirized tobacco road on his radio program on march 23, 1941. Tobacco road is a 1941 film directed by john ford starring charley grapewin, marjorie rambeau, gene tierney, william. Right off, the answer is noand you who have entertained doubts that the screen version of tobacco road, which john ford has made for twentieth centuryfox, might somewhat resemble the stage. Tobacco road 1941 charley grapewin, gene tierney, marjorie. As a consequence, the roxys new tenant is a slightly soiled family filma poorwhite family. The lesters are about to be thrown off their land for nonpayment of rent, but anyone who tries.