

Tobacco Road
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Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
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- Language
- English
- banker
- marriage
- georgia
- hillbilly
- backwoods
- sharecropper
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR20 Feb 1941
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG15 Apr 1941
ItalyIT
- Theatrical1 Jan 1949
SwedenSE
- Theatrical159 Mar 1942
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Tobacco Road was released on 20 February 1941.
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CinemaSerf
12/22/2024
Charley Grapewin's "Jeeter" is the epitome of the collapsed grandeur of the once prosperous tobacco road in Georgia. Formerly the hub of cotton and tobacco growing, it's now largely dilapidated with those left scrounging and scraping to make any kind of living. Until now, they have been fortunate as the last major landowner had given them the rights to live on the land, but just as his son "Capt. Tim" (Dana Andrews) …
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