| | Grapes Of Wrath DVD
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Recommended Movies, Classic Videos, Family Interaction, Essential Cinema, Social Issues, Tear Jerker, AFI Top 100 (1997), AFI Top 100, Poverty, AFI Top 50 Heroes | | Starring | John Carradine, Henry Fonda, Charley Grapewin, Jane Darwell, Russell Simpson, Doris Bowden, John Qualen, Grant Mitchell, Eddie Quillan, O.Z. Whitehead, Zeffie Tilbury | | Director | John Ford | | Art Director | Richard Day | | Costume Designer | Gwen Wakeling | | Director of Photography | Gregg Toland | | Editor | Robert Simpson | | Music Director | Alfred Newman | | Producer | Darryl F. Zanuck, Nunnally Johnson | | Production Designer | Mark-Lee Kirk | | Screenwriter | Nunnally Johnson | | Set Designer | Thomas Little | | Source Writer | John Steinbeck |
Black & White; Standard Screen; Additional Footage; Soundtrack English; Director's Comments; Sensor Matic Based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1939 novel, the story follows an Oklahoma family's escape from the dust bowl to join the migration to California's fruit harvest. John Ford's memorable screen version of John Steinbeck's epic novel of the Great Depression--often regarded as the director's best film--stars Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. After having served a brief prison sentence for manslaughter, Joad arrives at his family's Oklahoma farm only to find it abandoned. Muley (John Qualen), a neighbor now nearly mad with grief, tells Tom of the drought that has transformed the farmland of Oklahoma into a desert and of the preying land agents who have plowed under the shacks of the sharecroppers. Joined by former hellfire preacher Casy (John Carradine), Tom finds his extended family, including Pa (Charles Grapewin) and his indomitable Ma (Jane Darwell), packing their ramshackle truck to seek work in the fields of California. As the family treks across the country, their dissolution begins with the deaths of Tom's grandparents at close intervals. When they arrive in California, the Joads find only an abundance of poverty-stricken migrants like themselves and little in the way of potential work. Yet, ever resilient, they maintain their dignity, hoping for the best.
Among the talented cast, Fonda does perhaps the best work of his career, as does Qualen in the film's most haunting sequence. Director of photography Gregg Toland captures the suffering and the weathered, luminous nobility of the Joads and the other uprooted, drifting families, creating striking images equal to the best work of Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans. In a stirring film that stands as a microcosm of the depression experience of millions, Ford gives poverty a human face in a way that was rare then and even rarer in the decades to follow as Hollywood films with a sense of class consciousness dwindled like a species nearing extinction. THE GRAPES OF WRATH was an original selection to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1989. Grapes Of Wrath Reviews: "It's gorgeous, jaw-dropping work, rivaling Toland's deep-focus artistry in CITIZEN KANE."
-- Tim Purtell, Entertainment Weekly "As son Tom Joad, Henry Fonda gave the screen performance of his career."-- Mike Clark, USA Today "[T]he director's most artistic work..."
-- Kevin Maher, Uncut Ranked #17 in Uncut's Best DVDs Of 2005 -- "One of Ford's most beautiful films, and Fonda's performance is an essay in layered minimalism..."
-- Uncut Staff, Uncut Grapes Of Wrath | List Price | $19.98 (You save $6.43) | | Studio | 20th Century Fox | | Orig Year | 1940 | | All Time Sales Rank |  51580  | | CD Universe Part number | 7532573 | | Catalog number | 2248264 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Dec 04, 2007 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 128 Minutes | | Additional Info | Black & White; Subtitled | | Movie Details | B&W; Black & White; Subtitled |
Grapes Of Wrath Movie Review  The good old days
If you one of those people who always compare today with the good ol'days of genteel compassion you've been told about, then this is the movie for you. One viewing of this classic will have you thanking your lucky stars you live in todays "hedonistic and dangerous times."
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a Classic
Like 'To Kill a Mockingbird', this is a film that beautifully reflects a great story.
Full of humour, grit and determination, this movie takes the viewer back in time to a grim period in US history.
Great direction and some classic performances from the cast.
Timeless viewing.
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This review is for a different format. A powerful movie!!
This here is one of the best movies and it keeps you glued to the screen the whole 129 minutes!
Henry Fonda is fantastic in this! Jane Darwell also is great!
The picture quality is outstanding and the best it has ever looked.
Its great to have this on DVD to enjoy for ever!
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One of the best movies ever made
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This review is for a different format. A must see
This movie is an accurate portrayal of the conditions and hardships that were endured during the dust bowl days in the southwestern part of the U.S. The quality also is excellent reproduced on VHS, it's as if the movie was just made. A great story by John Steinbeck.
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Audio Commentary: Joseph McBride -Film Scholar; Susan Shillinglaw - Steinbeck Historian
Interactive Features:
Branching Footage - U.K. Prologue
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