Tobacco Road poster

Tobacco Road

ON THE SCREEN AT LAST! The Picture you've waited eight years to see...Picturized by the men who gave you "GRAPES OF WRATH"

6.8(61)19411h 24m2

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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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
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Language
English
  • banker
  • marriage
  • georgia
  • hillbilly
  • backwoods
  • sharecropper

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

John Ford

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • 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.

Audience reviews

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    CinemaSerf

    12/22/2024

    6/10

    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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