UNITED STATES · 1941

Tobacco Road

John Ford
Classical Hollywood rural poverty sharecropping class decline family struggle land dispossession
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Synopsis

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.

Year1941
CountryUnited States
DirectorJohn Ford
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