The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Description

A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncles farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life… Hopefully. Written by Colin Tinto <cst@imdb.com>

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction . The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 drama film directed by John Ford. It was based on John Steinbeck"s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The screenplay was . When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John . From a general summary to chapter summaries to explanations of famous quotes, the SparkNotes The Grapes of Wrath Study Guide has everything you need to ace quizzes . Directed by John Ford. With Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin. A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California .

Review

A marvellous production of Steinbeck’s epic.
Henry Fonda’s portrayal of Tom Joad captures perfectly the humanity and compassion of the Steinbeck character, an ex-con who breaks his parole conditions by joining his family in their epic journey across the southern US to a "better life" in California. This is not the usual Hollywood fare. Tragedy and betrayal beset the Joad family from the outset. But it is nonetheless an uplifting movie. Spirit, compassion and tenderness mark them out. Fonda’s role is particularly understated, and we see, as in Steinbeck’s masterly epic, the maternally robust figure of Ma holding the family together. The performances all round are wonderful, and Ford’s direction and sense of space under the big sky of the Midwest is breathtaking. This film is now largely a testament to the time in which it was set, but like the war movies that were soon to follow, a story that needed telling lest we forget.
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