A twisty, humorous antithesis to the usual Fordian style of family bonding, TOBACCO ROAD is a beautifully photographed examination of life among the "poor white trash" of Georgia's Tobacco Road area during the Depression. One of three Nunnally Johnson-scripted Ford films--following the
PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND and THE GRAPES OF WRATH--TOBACCO ROAD takes the long-running Kirkland play, which opened in 1933 and was based on the popular Caldwell novel, and turns it into a strangely distorted story of individualism and integrity. The film opens with the apocalyptic statement, "All
that they were, and all that they had, is gone with the wind and the dust," establishing ...
Released:
1941
Rated:
NR
Length:
84 mins