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The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time Oscar-winning director John Ford starred Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, who opens the movie returning to his Oklahoma home after serving jail time for manslaughter. En route, Tom meets family friend Casey (John Carradine), a former preacher who warns Tom that dust storms, crop failures, and new agricultural methods have financially decimated the once prosperous Oklahoma farmland. Upon returning to his family farm, Tom is greeted by his mother (Oscar-winner Jane Darwell), who tells him that the family is packing up for the "promised land" of California. Warned that they shouldn't expect a warm welcome in California--they've already seen the caravan of dispirited farmers, heading back home after striking out at finding work--the Joads push on all the same. Their first stop is a wretched migrant camp, full of starving children and surrounded by armed guards. Further down the road, the Joads drive into an idyllic government camp, with clean lodging, indoor plumbing, and a self-governing clientele. When Tom ultimately bids goodbye to his mother, who asks him where he'll go, he delivers the film's most famous speech: "I'll be all around...Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat...Whenever there's a cop beating a guy, I'll be there...And when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build. I'll be there too." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Features
Commentary by Joseph McBride (film scholar) and Susan Shillinglaw (John Steinbeck Scholar)
Fox Movie Channel presents Fox Legacy with Tom Rothman
Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century filmmaker as seen on biography on the A&E Network
Art Director - Richard Day
Art Director - Mark-Lee Kirk
Associate Producer - Nunnally Johnson
Book Author - John Steinbeck
Cinematographer - Gregg Toland
Composer (Music Score) - Alfred Newman
Costume Designer - Gwen Wakeling
First Assistant Director - Edward O'Fearna
Musical Direction/Supervision - Alfred Newman
Sound/Sound Designer - Roger Heman
Sound/Sound Designer - George Leverett
John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath is arguably the director's greatest movie, and the rare Hollywood film superior to its literary source (a view shared by the novel's author, John Steinbeck). Indeed, it is the movie that sums up the impact of the Great Depression, at least on rural America, better than any other film of its time (and there were hundreds that tried, by everyone from Frank Capra to Preston Sturges). From the opening shot of Tom Joad's return to the ruined land where he grew up, the movie is a study of people whose dreams and hopes wither away like the drought-stricken crops. Yet Ford managed to make a movie that wasn't utterly pessimistic, despite its story and setting: the performers and script availed him of indomitable characters, convincingly portrayed, with the result that even the most cynical viewers were persuaded of Ford's artistic vision. Henry Fonda, who'd been an up-and-coming leading man, solidified his image as an upright hero with an almost mystical bent in his portrayal of Tom Joad; Jane Darwell became the archetypal rural matriarch; and even the bit players, such as Ward Bond and Grant Mitchell, got relatively rare opportunities to play against their usual types as beneficent characters. The movie became a strange case of fiction transcending fact, as Ford's images (photographed by the great cinematographer Gregg Toland) became more representative of the period than most documentary photography. Countless filmmakers have quoted from The Grapes of Wrath (there's a very funny audio-visual reference in Close Encounters of the Third Kind), and Ford himself never made a more compelling social statement despite several attempts (The Sun Shines Bright, "Sergeant Rutledge", and others) over the next 20 years. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
Jane Darwell : Best Acting - National Board of Review, 1940
Henry Fonda : Best Acting - National Board of Review, 1940
John Ford : Best Director - New York Film Critics Circle, 1940
Henry Fonda : Best Actor - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1940
John Ford : Best Director - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1940
Robert L. Simpson : Best Editing - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1940
Nunnally Johnson : Best Screenplay - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1940
E.H. Hansen : Best Sound - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1940
Jane Darwell : Best Supporting Actress - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1940
