tobacco road ( film )
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erskine caldwell’s tobacco road dramatizes a georgian sharecropper family made cruel and vile by debilitating poverty. nathaniel rich writes that it shows just how much the intellectual preoccupations of the ’20s were swept aside by the great depression .
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deep in rural georgia during the great depression, the once magnificent plantation homes of tobacco road have fallen into disrepair and become ramshackle ruins. the only people who live there now are the sharecroppers of the absentee land owners, too poor to move on .
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as a comedy, tobacco road is a modest failure; as a tragedy, it’s an abject failure. and yet erskine caldwell’s novel, 80 years after its publication, remains a giddy, obscene joy. it as indelible as a freak show or car crash. nobody knew what to make of caldwell in 1932, and nobody much talks about him now, but his legacy persists. he is a progenitor of what could be called the degenerate school of american fiction. descendents include writers like william s. burroughs, harry crews, katherine dunn, and barry gifford. tobacco road is crass and deranged and irreducibly american .
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right off, the answer is no - - and you who have entertained doubts that the screen version of
tobacco road ,
which john ford has made for twentieth century - fox, might somewhat resemble the stage play may rest assured that it does not. as a matter of fact, it barely resembles a believable slice of life, and just comes under the wire as an amusing but pointless film. view full article in timesmachine »
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what an odd movie, certainly the oddest in john ford' s long filmography. while the original
tobacco road
( both the novel and the play) was a potent drama about rural southerners living in abject poverty and ignorance, the studio in collaboration with the veteran director have transformed it into a goofy comedy, full of cartoonish characters and slapstick gags. everything is sanitized, even the deformities of some of the heroes have disappeared…
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a dark comedy about taking risks both big and small, and the messy lines between art and life. a columbia university mfa thesis film .
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tobacco burn is justin liberman' s (4th year directing) & alvaro r. valente (4th year producing) mfa thesis at columbia university. nicole delaney (2nd year producing) & brian birch (3rd year producing) are the co - producers .
) in the cast, they appeared only in a sequence that was cut from the film, in which
jeeter
requests help from his son
tom .
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i leave you with a particularly funny gag from the film, when jeeter discovers electric lighting and how much fun it is to turn on and off lamps. thanks for reading !
a short film by columbia mfa student, talibah newman, about a young girl who enlists her sister to do an off color intervention with her father to reconcile their dark past .
tobacco road is grim, but never tragic. caldwell’s characters lack the dignity of tragic figures—they are too cruel and hateful. the reversals they suffer are not surprising; there is never any doubt that they will end in ruin, in large part because they begin in ruin and show no real desire to escape their fate. for the same reason the novel does not succeed as a comedy. it is funny, but in the way that a tasteless joke is funny: you shouldn’t be laughing, you don’t want to laugh, but you laugh until you’re sick. and when the laughter stops, you wonder whether you’re not so different from a wild animal either .
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upon its release, the film encountered very few censorship problems, apart from being banned entirely in australia for unspecified reasons, and was successful at the box office despite mixed reviews. a march 6, 1941
first of all, let me say that i saw this movie for the first time when i was in paris. for those of you who have been following backlots for some time, you know that there are 2 classic movie theaters in paris, the action cinema rue christine, and the desperado (which, oddly, was action écoles when i got there, and the desperado when i left. go figure–i’ve given up trying to understand anything that goes on in paris). obviously, i was constantly at one of them, and i saw some really fantastic movies on the big screen, as they were meant to be shown. tobacco road was at the rue christine, and i had never seen it before .
in order to avoid any pre - judgment of the film' s screenplay, the studio decided to film on location at sherwood forest, ca, rather than in augusta, ga, as had been originally planned. the
poor farm
sequences were shot on location at encino, ca. marjorie rambeau was borrowed from m - g - m for the production. although a january 9, 1941 studio billing sheet includes charles waldron (
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as for gene tierney, she was 20 years old when this film was made, and though her role as the shy ellie may lester was small, she was noticed for her beauty that seemed to be beyond her years .
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by july 1940, twentieth century - fox had intensified its efforts to acquire the screen rights and was concerned that a film based on the play would be banned in england, as the play had been. according to an august 18, 1940
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is getting away to a big start in new england as a result of the wide open exploitation possibilities offered by the censorship situation here. all the new england censor boards passed the picture but, by contrast, the stage play was banned throughout this part of the country except in four cities. as a result, the exhibitors are capitalizing plenty on the chance to see the film version of the long - barred play .
according to the legal records, the film had grossed almost $ 1, 900, 000 by 1973 .
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the actual book by erskine caldwell is truly disturbing. i’m not surprised that it was adapted so loosely into broad comedy, because any attempt to film the original story likely would have given the pca heart palpitations. from what i can tell (i haven’t seen this movie–my memories of the book have always made me avoid it), the storyline of the film has very little to do with caldwell’s version. it’s actually really funny to me that the undeniably gorgeous gene tierney was cast as ellie may, because in the novel, that character has a cleft palate and is decidedly not gorgeous by any stretch of the imagination !
in this case, at least, the lesters are motivated by hunger. but greater indignities follow. dude marries a sexually voracious woman more than twice his age in order to drive her new automobile. when the couple goes into the bedroom to consummate their union, the rest of the lesters poke their heads through the doorway or drag a ladder up to the window and watch. jeeter tries to sleep with his daughter - in - law and, it is implied, his daughters. dude runs a black man off the road, killing him, and only regrets the damage done to the car. then he runs over his grandmother .
the lesters, at first glance, seem the ideal heroes of a depression - era novel. they are poor; “dirt poor” is no exaggeration, for their land has been depleted by cotton farming and untilled for seven years. seventy - five years earlier, grandfather lester had owned a great tobacco plantation, but the property has long since been sold off to creditors. the lesters only remain on their small parcel thanks to the pity of its new owner. their house, which has never been painted, is sagging and rotted and porous. sections of ceiling fall away every time it rains .
charley grapewin, as jeeter lester, had me laughing all the way through the movie, as did many of the other supporting characters. a particular favorite recurring theme of mine is jeeter’s obsession with turnips. toward the beginning of the film there is a scuffle over a sack of turnips that is really very silly indeed. it is the at the height of randomness and zany surrealism, and that is my favorite kind of comedy .
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wanted to see a' bad' ford film (because when it comes to my favourites i can get a little sick on their richness) and gleaming from every scholar, from gallagher to mcbride, it seems like this one is the consensus pick. regardless if there are ford films that are just as bad or worse, i can see right off the bat why this is the picked on the most. not only because it sits slam dunk on what is arguably ford' s best year, thus scuppering a home run, it is also heavily, and i mean heavily, features the most consistently maligned aspect of the multiplexity that is ford. by which i mean his soused' irish' humour. he can indulge in…
news item, the pca continued to evaluate the submitted screenplays. in late november 1940, francis s. harmon, a pca official from the south, who had written extensively on religious matters, wrote a memo to breen outlining his concerns about the potential impact of the film' s treatment of religion. harmon concluded :
most serious is the fact that the laughter in the theatres [ provoked by the extreme religiosity of the characters ] will give point to the charge that a hollywood' filled with godless sophisticates,'' foreigners,' and' jews' is capitalizing this opportunity to make fun of all religion and by disgusting moviegoers with this screen exposition of an admittedly superficial, highly emotionalized type of religion, is doing a disservice to all religion .
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shiftless jeeter lester and his family of hillbilly stereotypes live in a rural backwater 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; subplots involve the affairs and marriages of son dude and daughter ellie may .
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gene tierney and dana andrews get barely 5 minutes of screen time each. gene gets just half a dozen lines to speak
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a patriarch of a large rural southern clan are threatened to be thrown off their land .
this movie is great. last time i could watch it was when i was young. found it on comcast on demand. going to watch it there. it has never been there ...
i would pay extra to get a copy of this movie. it shows what was going on before all the social welfare .
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on the screen at last! the picture you' ve waited eight years to see... picturized by the men who gave you
grapes of wrath
shiftless jeeter lester and his family of hillbilly stereotypes live in a rural backwater 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 .
this is the inversion of everything you expect a john ford movie to say about the nobility of the downtrodden, and it may be my new favorite ford of all. funniest thing i' ve seen since terminus paradis, and the teen - chimp - from - hell that is dude lester is now one of my favorite performances of all time .
you remember what blake said about john milton being on team satan without realizing it? that' s this .
shiftless tenant farmer jeeter lester (charley grapewin) and his steadfast wife ada (elizabeth patterson) eke a living off the borrowed land and by selling firewood. the lesters take care of grandma (zeffie tilbury) and live with their slow - witted son dude (william tracy) and 23 - year - old daughter ellie may (gene tierney), a real wildcat of a woman. the rest of their numerous children have all died or moved away. …
a hideous inversion of all that is fordian, the grapes of wrath remade as hateful, childish grotesquerie, a nasty indulgence of ford' s worst tendencies, for once distilled into a picture rather than what it should have been, an eight day bender aboard the araner .
watched this for gene tierney, only for her to have about 5 lines and barely any scenes. a waste !
the lesters, a family of poor sharecroppers, are living for generations at the same piece of land in rural georgia. now, in the midst of the great depression, the bank is about to take over their parcel unless they find 100 dollars in two days to pay as rent .
straight up bummer that i didn' t care for the story at all. tierney' s the highlight, and grapewin is decent i suppose, but some of the other characters were annoying. it seemed like it tried to be another grapes of wrath but didn' t even come close at all. my least favorite ford and i' m a pretty darn big fan .
interesting portrayal of the poor and poverty stricken family when compared to much of the rest of ford' s filmography. some funny moments, and very over the top segments within. the hymn segments with sister bessie were getting old by the end, and the scenes dominated by her and dude distracted from the more interesting story involving the parents .
john ford triumphantly does the unexpected and turns erskine calldwell' s grim novel of the depression into a riotous comedy. viewed as an adaptation it' s an obvious failure, so far does it stray from the source both in mood and plot, but on its own terms it' s one of the most glorious oddities in cinema .
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the plot has to do with a poor family living on inherited land, and their struggles to stay afloat during tough economic times. the story was taken from a novel, but the plot of the novel was more about the dramas of the family, while this movie chooses to focus more on the comic relief .
i highly recommend this movie if you are looking for some good laughs. there is one scene, however, that shows the more somber side of the story, in which jeeter weeps over the loss of his land. it is very artfully done, and i would go so far as to say it’s done in a style very typical of john ford, in stark contrast to the rest of the lighthearted, fun movie .
i agree with brandie! the book should be adapted into a ‘true’ screenplay and remade. i would certainly go see it if it wasn’t scrubbed of all of the interesting story points. i expected more from john ford! although it’s fun with it’s comedic scenes it should have been made true to the novel. a nice review! glad you’re celebrating the lovely tierney .
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a poor family in rural georgia struggles to make ends meet as the clan' s father, jeeter lester (charley grapewin), proudly refuses help at every turn. although the lesters have thrived on their land for generations, jeeter and his wife (marjorie rambeau) haven' t prospered, and the outlook for the family is bleak. while many lester children have left the farm, the none - too - bright dude (william tracy) and the gorgeous ellie may (gene tierney) are still around to cause a fair share of drama .
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news items: several studios expressed interest in acquiring the rights to jack kirkland' s play and erskine caldwell' s novel, both of which were popular, but also very controversial. on december 5, 1933, the night after its new york city opening, the play was attended by a pca official, who reported ,
this play contains about everything which would make it very objectionable as a motion picture .
rko, which may have been the first studio to acquire an option on the properties, was discouraged by the pca from pursuing the project. according to a march 3, 1940
news item, rko had intended to purchase the play for charles laughton, who was to play
jeeter .
in 1939, republic was informed by pca official joseph i. breen :
the material, in our judgment, is definitely and specifically in violation of the production code and is, likewise, enormously dangerous from the standpoint of political censorship .
columbia was advised in march 1940 that the title
was on a list of banned titles because the play was
consistently considered unsuitable material .
warner bros. also was interested in the properties and entered into negotiations with kirkland, but apparently was discouraged by the pca' s intimation that the title would not be available for use .
article, twentieth century - fox' s purchase of the play ended
seven months of bidding for the property, in which rko was the chief competitor .
the article speculated that the studio' s success with
influenced the hays office to sanction the purchase ,
and that it was
possible that henry hull, who created the role of jeeter lester on broadway, [ would ] be borrowed from [ m - g - m ] to play the role on the screen .
on october 13, 1940 ,
stated that the picture was
slated for
fonda. the studio settled the acquisition on november 7, 1940, and agreed to pay kirkland $ 150, 000 against a percentage of the gross receipts .
in discussing a november 6, 1940 temporary script submitted by the studio, breen warned that
many religious folk throughout the nation may be offended by the religious aspects .
breen advised the studio to
secure the counsel of an intelligent protestant clergyman as to the likely reception of the picture, as now drafted, among church - going folks generally ,
and also cautioned against portraying the relationship between
lov
and
ellie may
as overtly sexual. while casting was in progress, which included testing fred stone for
one of the top roles ,
according to an october 1940
jeeter lester, the patriarch, has 12 surviving children. he doesn’t remember most of their names. all but two have left and never returned. since lester cannot afford to rent a mule or basic farming supplies, his main income comes from selling his daughters into marriage. he trades pearl, 12, to a neighbor for some quilts, not quite a gallon of cylinder oil, and $ 7 .
jeeter lives with his wife, ada, who suffers from pellagra and spends her days daydreaming about buying a nice dress in which to be buried; his mother, whom nobody talks to, except to tell her “to get out of the way, or to stop eating the bread and meat”; a big stupid son, dude, 16; and a daughter, ellie may, 18. the only reason ellie may hasn’t been married is because she has a gruesome harelip that makes her gums look like “a bleeding, painful wound. ” the family is slowly starving to death .
none of these characters would be caught dead in a novel by john steinbeck, carson mccullers, or eudora welty. the lesters are poor, but they have no dignity. they behave like wild animals. they steal from each other, beat each other, try to have sex with each other. they are violent, terminally stupid, and slothful to a pathological degree. jeeter is so lazy that when he trips, he stays on the ground for an hour before bothering to get back up .
the wanton crudeness of the lesters frustrated caldwell’s critics. was the novel a cry for social justice, or a nasty satire? yes, conditions were bad in the rural south—but could they really be this bad ?
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this monthly series will chronicle the history of the american century as seen through the eyes of its novelists. the goal is to create a literary an atomy of the last century—or, to be precise, from 1900 to 2012. in each column i’ll write about a single novel and the year it was published. the novel may not be the bestselling book of the year, the most praised, or the most highly awarded—though awards do have a way of fixing an age’s conventional wisdom in aspic. the idea is to choose a novel that, looking back from a safe distance, seems most accurately, and eloquently, to speak for the time in which it was written. other than that there are few rules. i won’t pick any stinkers .
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a play by april yvette thompson. a gullah healer woman and an afro - cuban priest forge a new world of magic & dreams in jim crow miami .
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when one of the most prolific art forgers in us history is finally exposed, he must confront the legacy of his 30 - year con .
it' s 1972 during the famous playoff game between the steelers and raiders. can joey, a shy 16 year old, win over the girl of his dreams ?
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come hell or high water, ten year - old bobby believes he must baptize his best friend joshua to save him from eternal damnation .
come hell or high water, ten year - old bobby believes he must baptize his best friend joshua to save him from eternal damnation. robert caudy (1st year) will direct from his 8 - 12 script with michael minard (2nd year) and victoria besse aleksanian (1st year) producing .
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tobacco road is a 1941 film directed by john ford starring charley grapewin , marjorie rambeau , gene tierney , william tracy dana andrews and ward bond . it was based on the novel of the same name by erskine caldwell , but the plot was rewritten for the film . 
tobacco road is a 1941 film directed by john ford starring charley grapewin, marjorie rambeau, gene tierney, william tracy dana andrews and ward bond. it was based on the novel of the same name by erskine caldwell, but the plot was rewritten for the film.
tobacco road is a 1941 film directed by john ford starring charley grapewin, marjorie rambeau, gene tierney, william tracy dana andrews and ward bond. it was based on the novel of the same name by erskine caldwell, but the plot was rewritten for the film.