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"

Starring: Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy, Elizabeth Patterson

Writer: Jack Kirkland, Nunnally Johnson, Erskine Caldwell

Release Date:
February 20, 1941
Ratings:
6.7 / 10
Director:
John Ford
Companies:
20th Century Fox

Overview

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.