Tobacco Road
1941 · 84 min
Directed by John Ford. Written by Nunnally Johnson. Starring Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy.
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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