Tobacco Road

6.6 / 10

(54 votes)

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.

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Comedy,

Drama

Duration:

84 minutes

Year:

1941

Director:

John Ford

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Company:

20th Century Fox

Cast:
Charley Grapewin

Jeeter Lester

Marjorie Rambeau

Sister Bessie Rice

Gene Tierney

Ellie May Lester

William Tracy

Dude Lester

Elizabeth Patterson

Ada Lester

Crew:
Jack Kirkland

Theatre Play

Nunnally Johnson

Screenplay

John Ford

Director

Erskine Caldwell

Novel

James Basevi

Art Direction