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Tobacco Road
Film / 1941

Tobacco Road

Directed by John Ford
ComedyDrama

★ 6.8/10Audience rating

Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.

The story

Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.

Cast

Charley GrapewinJeeter Lester Marjorie RambeauSister Bessie Rice Gene TierneyEllie May Lester William TracyDude Lester Elizabeth PattersonAda Lester Dana AndrewsCapt. Tim Harmon Slim SummervilleHenry Peabody Ward BondLov Bensey Grant MitchellGeorge Payne Zeffie TilburyGrandma Lester Russell SimpsonChief of Police Spencer ChartersCounty Clerk
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Irving BaconBank Teller Harry TylerCar Salesman Charles HaltonMayor George ChandlerHotel Desk Clark Dorothy AdamsSusie Mae (uncredited) Mae MarshCounty Clerk's Assistant (uncredited) Jack PennickPoliceman Erville Alderson Luke Cosgrave Francis Ford David Hughes John 'Skins' Miller Robert Shaw

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