Tobacco Road-1941-John Ford-Stars amongst others Dana Andrews-Gene Tierney

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Erskine Caldwell's once-scandalous novel Tobacco Road resulted in an equally steamy stage play by Jack Kirkland, which became one of the longest-running productions in Broadway history. This story of indigence and amorality amongst inbred "poor whites" (based on people Caldwell had known while growing up in Georgia) had to be heavily expurgated for movie consumption, put there was plenty of comedy and colorful characterizations to suit the purposes of director John Ford. Charley Grapewin stars as Jeeter Lester, shiftless patriarch of a large backwoods clan. The Lesters are about to be thrown off their land for nonpayment of rent, but anyone who tries to help them--or to alter their lifestyle--is chased away by the poverty-stricken but intensely proud Jeeter. Tobacco Road succeeded on the basis of its title alone, even though no one expected the film to be anywhere near as earthy as the stage version (it would have been impossible under prevailing censorship to include the play's famous opening scene, in which the family watches intently while a teenage girl masturbates!) 








Ford's next film but one after The Grapes of Wrath, obviously intended by Fox as a follow-up in the Oscar-winning social conscience stakes, was generally castigated as a crude, stagy mockery, derived at one or two censorship removes from the play based on Erskine Caldwell's bawdily earthy novel. In retrospect, however, it emerges as a fascinatingly subversive piece, undermining the starry-eyed humanism of the earlier film's 'We are the people' view. Instead of Steinbeck's Joads of Oklahoma, stubbornly maintaining their faith in the American Dream even in the depths of misery, we get the Lesters of Georgia, poor white trash perfectly content to wallow fecklessly in their mire of animal sexuality (when young) or tranquil sloth (when old age takes over). Beautifully realised by Ford, not unlike Kazan's Baby Doll in its blackly comic blend of dark sexuality and overheated melodrama, Tobacco Road is often very funny, sometimes deeply moving, and always provocative in its acknowledgment of an alternative to 'the American way of life'





Cast:





Charles Grapewin - Jeeter Lester 


Marjorie Rambeau - Sister Bessie 


Gene Tierney - Ellie May Lester 


William Tracy - Dude Lester 


Elizabeth Patterson - Ada Lester 


Dana Andrews - Dr. Tim 


George "Slim" Summerville - Henry Peabody 


Ward Bond - Lov Bensey 


Grant Mitchell - George Payne 


Zeffie Tilbury - Grandma Lester 


Russell Simpson - Sheriff 


Spencer Charters - Employee 


Irving Bacon - Teller 


Harry Tyler - Auto Salesman 


Charles Halton - Mayor 


George Chandler - Employee 


Dorothy Adams - Payne's secretary 


Francis Ford - Vagabond 


Mae Marsh - Woman 


John Miller - Garage Attendant 


Jack Pennick - Deputy sheriff

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