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...peaceful, prosperous, progressive America of 1956, Grapes of Wrath can be seen without evoking the violence of feeling it did in 1940, except perhaps in the drought-stricken Southwest where the farmers are again having to move out. Untimeliness is not the only reason that the movie does not produce sufficient impact. Although producer Darryl F. Zanuck thought the condition of the Okies even worse than John Steinbeck had reported, in a supposedly superior medium, he does not attain as graphic a portrayal of their plight as did the author...
...make a movie as effective as Steinbeck's novel, a work that was both publicly blessed and burned soon after its 1939 publication. Director John Ford and screenwriter Nunnally Johnson tried to recreate the book's impact by quite faithfully transcribing the original story and dialogue. Grapes of Wrath uses the Joads to exemplify the poor, Southwest farm family "tractored-off" their land by the big operators and forced west to California. The movie captures the epic quality of this last major westward migration, and the frightened hatred of the Californians towards these people...
...these people to their better-to-do persecutors, the similarity of involvement in the same collective struggle for the perpetuation of life. The movie does this, and ends with the hope that these people will do better in the future, as they of course did. Although Grapes of Wrath has much less value as social criticism and protest in 1956, it still is worth seeing for its successful portrayal of an heroic human drama...
...Emperor Jones is familiar enough to the audience so that the present abridged version conveys nearly all of O'Neill's original. Instead of first seeing Jones as the corrupt misruler of a jungle island we first meet him as he is fleeing from the wrath of his subjects, plunging into the jungle. The emperor bursts on stage, confident and arrogant, but already tired of running. The fear and disintegration seen in Jones on his frantic flight is echoed remorselessly by the ceaseless native drums, coming louder and closer and faster until, finally, Jones is shot. At this ponit...
John Ford's great 1940 classic is with us once more--this time without its inevitable companion feature, Grapes of Wrath. For those who have missed the film the first twenty-three times around, Tobacco Road, based on a novel by Erskine Caldwell, concerns a poor-white Georgia dirt farmer named Jeeter Lester who tries to dig up $100 so he can keep his depression-haunted homestead out of the clutches of the bank. Not a man of boundless energy, Jeeter's attempts to secure the money, which include the theft of his son's car, turn...