Tobacco Road (1941)

UK:: PG Comedy Drama

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.

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Runtime: 84 mins Rating: 6.9 Tag Line: ON THE SCREEN AT LAST! The Picture you've waited eight years to see...Picturized by the men who gave you "GRAPES OF WRATH"

Cast

Slim Summerville

Henry Peabody

Dorothy Adams

Payne's Secretary (uncredited)

Ward Bond

Lov Bensey

Charley Grapewin

Jeeter Lester

Russell Simpson

Chief of Police

Zeffie Tilbury

Grandma Lester

Mae Marsh

Boy (uncredited)

Dana Andrews

Capt. Tim Harmon