The Grapes of Wrath

Friday, January 18 - Monday, January 21, 2013

DCP projection

“This classic Ford film eclipses much of the action of John Steinbeck’s well-known novel of the Oklahoma farmers’ migration from the dustbowl to the California Eden during the Depression years. The Okies were unwelcome in California, of course; they threatened the jobs of the locals. The brutal police hassled and harassed them unmercifully. The migrants formed unions in self-defence and struck for decent fruit-picking wages. This inevitably multiplied the official violence. Ford’s film, shot by Gregg Toland with magnificent, lyrical simplicity, captures the stark plainness of the migrants, stripped to a few possessions, left with innumerable relations and little hope.” – Time Out (London)

• Country USA
• Rating NR
• Year 1940
• Running Time 129 minutes
• Director John Ford

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