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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
USA
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Year
1940
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Genre
Drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
“The message is boldly displayed, but told with characters of such sympathy and images of such beauty that audiences leave the theater feeling more pity than anger or resolve.”
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 2002
Primarily identified with the Western genre, and responsible for many of its great classics – among them Stagecoach (1939) and The Searchers (1956) – director John Ford won the second of his four Oscars for this 1930s-set chronicle of the westward migration of poverty-stricken farmers, turned off their land in the Oklahoma dustbowl and heading in hope for California.
John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel shocked its contemporary readers by revealing the cruel flipside of the American dream. The screen version matched it by casting Henry Fonda, who so often played paragons of homespun virtue, as central character Tom Joad, an ordinary man driven by economic injustice to political awakening and violent resistance.
Gregg Toland’s striking high-contrast black-and-white cinematography lends the drama a truly elemental aspect.
Other notable screen transfers of Steinbeck’s fiction include Of Mice and Men (1939 and 1992), The Red Pony (1949) and East of Eden (1955).
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Tom Joad
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Ma Joad
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Grandpa Joad
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Rosasharn
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Casy
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Pa Joad, 'Old Tom'
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Al
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Muley
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Connie Rivers
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Grandma Joad
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Noah
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Uncle John
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Winfield Joad
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Ruth Joad
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Thomas
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caretaker
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Wilkie
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Davis
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policeman
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Bert
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Bill
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Joe
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inspection officer
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leader of the convoy
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proprietor
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Floyd
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Frank
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city man
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bookkeeper
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Tim Wallace
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agent
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Muley's son
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Spencer
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Roy, a driver
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Mae
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[Muley's wife]
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[Fred, a truck driver]
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[hungry girl]
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[boy who ate]
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[Arkansas storekeeper]
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[deputy]
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[Joe, a deputy]
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[deputy]
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[deputy]
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[deputy]
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[deputy]
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[deputy]
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[deputy]
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[deputy]
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[father]
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[gas station man]
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[border guard]
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[gas station attendant]
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[gas station attendant]
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[gas station attendant]
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[clerk]
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[motor cop]
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[guard]
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[guard]
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[guard]
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[guard]
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[Jule]
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[committee man]
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[leader of gang]
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[deputy driver]
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[state policeman]
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[waitress]
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[boy]
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[migrant]
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Credits
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Direction:
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Directed by
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[2nd Unit Director]
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[Assistant Director]
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[Assistant Director]
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[Script Clerk]
Production:
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©/Presents/Released through
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Darryl F. Zanuck's Production of
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Associate Producer
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[Unit Manager]
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[Production Manager]
Writing:
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Screen Play by
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Based on the novel by
Photography:
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Director of Photography
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[2nd Unit Photographer]
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[Camera Operator]
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[Assistant Camera]
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[Assistant Camera]
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[Gaffer]
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[Best Boy]
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[Grip]
Stills:
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[Stills]
Editing:
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Film Editor
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[Assistant Cutter]
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[Assistant Cutter]
Design:
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Art Direction
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Art Direction
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Set Decorations
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[Props]
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[Assistant Propman]
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[Assistant Propman]
Costumes:
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Costumes
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[Wardrobe]
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[Wardrobe]
Make-up:
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[Make-up]
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[Hair]
Music:
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Musical Direction
Sound:
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Sound
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Sound
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[Assistant Sound]
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[Cableman]
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Sound System
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[Assistant Boom Man]
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[Sound Effects Editor]
Consultant:
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Technical Director
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