The Grapes of Wrath
The Joads step right out of the pages of the novel that has shocked millions!
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Timing:
2:9 (129 min)
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Country
Production
Genre
Drama
Budget
$800 000
Revenue
$1 591 000
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Operator
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Robert L. Simpson
All team (45)
All team (45)
Short description
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming was shrouded in secrecy due to fears that the chambers of commerce of Texas and Oklahoma might prohibit location shooting on their territories. The working title of the project was "Route 66".
- A film adaptation of the novel of the same name by John Steinbeck.
- Director John Ford (1894-1973) forbade the use of makeup and perfume on set, considering them inappropriate.
- Banks and large agricultural corporations, which controlled a significant portion of farms in California, were not enthusiastic about John Steinbeck's novel (1939). The book was even banned in some states and in some counties in California; at the library in the author’s hometown of Salinas, a copy of the book appeared only in the 1990s. They were even less pleased to learn that a film would be made based on the book. The California Farmers Association even called for a boycott of all films from Twentieth Century Fox, and the author himself received threatening letters.
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