The Grapes of Wrath | 
| Director: John Ford
Actors: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  116 reviews
Sales Rank: 774
Format: Black & White, Dvd, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 128 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 2220330
UPC: 024543103301
EAN: 0024543103301
ASIN: B0000DJZ8R
Theatrical Release Date: March 15, 1940
Release Date: April 6, 2004
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Ranking No. 21 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American films, this 1940 classic is a bit dated in its noble sentimentality, but it remains a luminous example of Hollywood classicism from the peerless director of mythic Americana, John Ford. Adapted by Nunnally Johnson from John Steinbeck's classic novel, the film tells a simple story about Oklahoma farmers leaving the depression-era dustbowl for the promised land of California, but it's the story's emotional resonance and theme of human perseverance that makes the movie so richly and timelessly rewarding. It's all about the humble Joad family's cross-country trek to escape the economic devastation of their ruined farmland, beginning when Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) returns from a four-year prison term to discover that his family home is empty. He's reunited with his family just as they're setting out for the westbound journey, and thus begins an odyssey of saddening losses and strengthening hopes. As Ma Joad, Oscar-winner Jane Darwell is the embodiment of one of America's greatest social tragedies and the "Okie" spirit of pressing forward against all odds (as she says, "because we're the people"). A documentary-styled production for which Ford and cinematographer Gregg Toland demanded painstaking authenticity, The Grapes of Wrath is much more than a classy, old-fashioned history lesson. With dialogue and scenes that rank among the most moving and memorable ever filmed, it's a classic among classics--simply put, one of the finest films ever made. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
An oklahoma family moves to california during the dustbowl period of the 1930s. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 06/19/2008 Starring: Henry Fonda John Carradine Run time: 128 minutes
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 A HOBO,S CHRISTMAS June 27, 2009
Janet S. jeffers (cheshire, ohio)
[[ASIN:B000BVM218 A Hobo's Christmas]
hobo,s christmas is A WONDERFUL MOVIE, ALEARNING EXPERIANCE FOR ALL ABOUT LOVE,TO LEARN ABOUT LOVE OF OUR FAMILY WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES LIKE BERNARD SHAW SAID IN THE MOVIE,THIS MOVIE JUST AMAZES ME IT IS AN OLD MOVIE BUT IT IS ONE OF THE GREATEST THEN AND NOW, PLEASE MAKE MORE OF IT,S KIND.
JANET [JAN] JEFFERS CHESHIRE, OHIO
 Thumbs Both Up & Down May 25, 2009
Craig Connell (Lockport, NY USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Grapes Of Wrath is an interesting, beautifully-filmed, powerful movie, but a story so marred by obvious leftist bias that it takes away from the presentation.
With the fabulous black-and-white contrasts here, I wish John Ford had directed a bunch of film noirs because this sure has the feel of one. This is just great photography and camera angles. Henry Fonda is the lead character and does a fine job as usual but Jane Darwell steals the show as the matriarch of the family. John Carradine almost does the same with his ex-preacher role. The scenes of the family all piled on this old jalopy is one that will stay with you.
It's no wonder it's still such a favorite with the liberal/secular population. We get the typical Hollywood fallen preacher role in which the man has lost his faith and then admits he doesn't have a clue. Later, he gives some of his theology which no Oklahoma preacher would ever believe in. For example, he has no idea what grace is.
Then we have another modern-day Hollywood staple: everyone in authority is portrayed as a ruthless, sadistic thug, from the cops to the leaders of the camps. The only one who is shown to be compassionate is the kindly gentleman who espouses all the virtues of socialism and communism, which Fonda then praises to the hilt the rest of the movie, along with an incredibly stupid monologue on New Age religion.
"I'll be there every time a cop is beatin' a guy up..." April 14, 2009
J from NY (New York)
Directed by John Ford and adapted from the famous novel by John Steinbeck, "The Grapes of Wrath" is a gloomy masterpiece that challenges many of the assumptions we have about capitalism. Indeed, had Franklin Delano Roosevelt not come to power, social revolution would have been a very real possibility during the 1920's.
The reason this film is not as celebrated as, say, "Citizen Kane" or other of the AFI films is because it exposes poverty in America for what it is: as bad as anywhere else. We see the Joad family, a family that could be ours' very easily with a few alterations in time and space, suffering unimaginably.
Tom Joad, played flawlessly by Henry Fonda in a sort of Zen simplicity of growing realization, is the youngest man in the Joad clan. Having served 4 years for murder (justified homicide), he returns to the home in California which no longer exists. The suffering of his parents and two younger siblings is so grievous that he no longer thinks about drinking, dancing so much--his mind is on something much bigger. The powers that be.
Every frame of this film is smothered with misery, heat, and oppression. Perhaps now more than ever we should understand Joad's character and remember his words at the end of the movie to his saintly mother: "I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too."
 would have loved to see it, but my disk is bad March 24, 2009
W. Green (north carolina)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
right about the time they arrive in california, the picture pixates and i just end up fast forwarding it for the next 10 minutes, ruined the whole movie for me.
Depressing,Pointless and ends on unrealistic Hopelessness! March 15, 2009
Chris H. (,OH,U.S.A.)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I just watched Grapes Of Wrath last night,and I think it is highly overrated!
Watching the Joad family suffer through one miserable experience after another and especially to end on with such a tone of hopelessness was not a good film experience.
I just see no redeeming quality in this film.If our country was so hopeless as portrayed in this film,then I would not have enjoyed the childhood that I did,being born in 1950!
I gave it two stars only for the stark portrayal of the inhumanity of corporate farms/corporate greed,and how migrant workers are treated to this day!
A film full of misery and injustice,for lovers of 'downers' only.
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