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Tobacco Road

Release Year
1941
Runtime
1h 24m
Genres
Comedy
Drama
Directed By
John Ford
Tobacco Road

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.

Cast & Crew

Cast

Charley Grapewin

Jeeter Lester

Marjorie Rambeau

Sister Bessie Rice

Gene Tierney

Ellie May Lester

William Tracy

Dude Lester

Elizabeth Patterson

Ada Lester

Dana Andrews

Capt. Tim Harmon

Slim Summerville

Henry Peabody

Grant Mitchell

George Payne

Zeffie Tilbury

Grandma Lester

Russell Simpson

Chief of Police

Spencer Charters

County Clerk

Irving Bacon

Bank Teller

Crew

John Ford

Director

Nunnally Johnson

Screenplay

Arthur C. Miller

Director of Photography

Barbara McLean

Editor

Darryl F. Zanuck

Producer

Erskine Caldwell

Novel

Jack Kirkland

Theatre Play

David Buttolph

Music

James Basevi

Art Direction

Richard Day

Art Direction

Thomas Little

Set Decoration

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