Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
- farm
- california
- based on novel or book
- capitalism
- ex-detainee
- oklahoma
- great depression
- road trip
- jail
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Dorris Bowdon — Rosasharn
- Russell Simpson — Pa Joad
- O.Z. Whitehead — Al Joad
- John Qualen — Muley Graves
- Eddie Quillan — Connie Rivers
- Zeffie Tilbury — Grandma Joad
- Frank Sully — Noah
- Frank Darien — Uncle John
- Darryl Hickman — Winfield
- Shirley Mills — Ruth Joad
- Roger Imhof — Thomas
- Directed
- John Ford
- Written
- Nunnally Johnson
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 1,117 ratings
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
