Tobacco Road (1941) | |
| Director(s) | John Ford |
| Producer(s) | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Drama |
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Tobacco Road (1941) was a Comedy - Drama Film directed by John Ford and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.
SYNOPSIS
An oddball, flip side of the coin to Ford's Grapes of Wrath takes a humorous look at a family of layabouts in the Georgia backwoods during the Great Depression. Facing monthly bills of $100, Grapewin and his wife Rambeau worry about their inability to come up with the cash. Grapewin faces the hard times that surround him with a gleeful sense of humor that seems as much a tribute to his spirit as it is to his unwillingness to work. His children are no different: Tracy is more interested in cars than work, and Tierney is snaring boy-next-door Bond. They all remain cheerful, hopeful that someday all will be well.
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MOVIE REVIEW: “Tobacco Road” (1941)
By Lara on Nov 10, 2011 From BacklotsIn celebration of our Star of the Month Gene Tierney, I will be reviewing Tobacco Road, one of Gene’s earliest endeavors into film, and one in which despite efforts to the contrary, her striking looks win out over all the makeup to make her look like a hillbilly, and she simply looks stunning ... Read full article
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Lov Bensey: I ain't tradin' turnips with nobody.
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Facts about
The Broadway play by Jack Kirkland based on Erskine Caldwell's novel opened 4 December 1933 and set a record for longevity on Broadway when it closed on 31 May 1941 after 3,281 performances. It was revived on Broadway twice in the next two years, bring its total running time there to nearly ten years (1933-1943). Opened at the Theatre Masque and then moved to the 48th Street Theatre followed by the Forrest Theatre for the original production. The play was revived in 1942, 1943 and 1950. The original Broadway production is the sixteenth longest running show ever.
The early-1941 Ford Super De Luxe Convertible Club Coupe, driven by Harvey Parry, survived its ordeal. During filming it had been crashed into a 100-year-old sycamore tree, then backed out of the debris and driven fast to jump over a 20-foot stream (with the aid of a ramp), and thereafter smashed through several fences, sideswiped a two-ton truck (forcing the truck off the road), rammed through a tool shed (cut from final release), jumped a curb, splintered a park bench, rammed a station wagon, ran into two other trees and skidded until finally overturning. Following this, the car was set right by the crew and driven back to the studio by Parry. A studio employee, Arthur Webb, purchased the badly-damaged convertible from 20th Century-Fox and, with his brother Don, commenced to repair it with hundreds of hours of personal labor and $125 in new parts from a Beverly Hills dealership.
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