The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Name: The Grapes of Wrath
Released: 1940
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon

• Movies, Drama

• 129 min

7.8

The Joads step right out of the pages of the novel that has shocked millions!

Directed by: John Ford
Casting: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon, Russell Simpson, O.Z. Whitehead, John Qualen, Eddie Quillan, Zeffie Tilbury, Frank Sully, Frank Darien, Darryl Hickman, Shirley Mills, Roger Imhof, Grant Mitchell, Charles D. Brown, John Arledge, Harry Tyler, William Pawley, Charles Tannen, Selmer Jackson, Charles Middleton, Eddy Waller, Paul Guilfoyle, David Hughes, Cliff Clark, Joe Sawyer, Frank Faylen, Adrian Morris, Hollis Jewell, Robert Homans, Irving Bacon, Kitty McHugh, Gino Corrado, Pat Flaherty, Francis Ford, Herbert Heywood, Mae Marsh, Dan White, Wally Albright, Erville Alderson, Robert J. Anderson, Arthur Aylesworth, Trevor Bardette, Joe Bordeaux, George P. Breakston, Buster Brodie, Delmar Costello, W.H. Davis, Emily Gerdes, Barney Gilmore, Edna Hall, Charles Herzinger, Harry Holden, David Kirkland, Lillian Lawrence, Scotty Mattraw, Frank Newburg, Walter Perry, Rose Plumer, Al Stewart, Charles Thurston, D.H. Turner, John Wallace, Charles West, Russ Clark, James Flavin, Philip Morris, Max Wagner, Harry Cording, Ralph Dunn, Bob Reeves, Lee Shumway, Paul Sutton, William Haade, Frank O'Connor, Harry Tenbrook, Tom Tyler, Thornton Edwards, Rex Lease, Ben Hall, Louis Mason, Walter McGrail, Walter Miller, George O'Hara, Ted Oliver, Inez Palange, Steve Pendleton, Robert Shaw, Jack Pennick, Dick Rich, Gloria Roy, Peggy Ryan, Georgia Simmons, Harry Strang, Glen Walters, Norman Willis, Bill Wolfe, Waclaw Rekwart, Josephine Allen, John Binns, Leon Brace, Henry Brahe, Scotty Brown, Hal Budlong, Nora Bush, Shirley Coates, Cal Cohen, Cecil Cook, Jim Corey, Jane Crowley, Helen Dean, John Dilson, Lillian Drew, Ward Bond
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 1940-03-15
Status: Released

Tags: farm, california, based on novel or book, capitalism, ex-detainee, oklahoma, great depression, road trip, jail

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.