<i>Tobacco Road</i> (film)

Tobacco Road (film)

<p><i><b>Tobacco Road</b></i> is a 1941 American <a href="/en/Comedy-drama" title="Comedy-drama" class="mw-redirect wl">comedy-drama</a> film directed by <a href="/en/John_Ford" title="John Ford" class="wl">John Ford</a> and starring <a href="/en/Charley_Grapewin" title="Charley Grapewin" class="wl">Charley Grapewin</a>, <a href="/en/Marjorie_Rambeau" title="Marjorie Rambeau" class="wl">Marjorie Rambeau</a>, <a href="/en/Gene_Tierney" title="Gene Tierney" class="wl">Gene Tierney</a> and <a href="/en/William_Tracy" title="William Tracy" class="wl">William Tracy</a>. It was based on the 1932 <a href="/en/Tobacco_Road_(novel)" title="Tobacco Road (novel)" class="wl">novel of the same name</a> by <a href="/en/Erskine_Caldwell" title="Erskine Caldwell" class="wl">Erskine Caldwell</a> and the <a href="/en/Tobacco_Road_(play)" title="Tobacco Road (play)" class="wl">1933 Broadway play</a> that <a href="/en/Jack_Kirkland" title="Jack Kirkland" class="wl">Jack Kirkland</a> adapted from the novel.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="#cite_note-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span> The plot was rewritten for the film by <a href="/en/Nunnally_Johnson" title="Nunnally Johnson" class="wl">Nunnally Johnson</a>, who had worked with Ford on <i><a href="/en/The_Grapes_of_Wrath_(film)" title="The Grapes of Wrath (film)" class="wl">The Grapes of Wrath</a></i> the previous year; the plot was altered to fit Production Code demands for a lighter tone while retaining plot elements.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-Tobacco_Road_1941_2-0"><a href="#cite_note-Tobacco_Road_1941-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[2]</span></a></span></p>

<div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none" about="#mwt1">1941 film by John Ford</div>
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<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066479718" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles mw:Transclusion">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-header,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-subheader,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-above,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-title,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-image,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-below{text-align:center}</style><div class='mobile-collapse'><header class="mobile-collapse-header mobile-collapse-btn"><b>Quick facts: Tobacco Road, Directed by, Screenplay by, Bas...</b> <span class='arrow'>▼</span></header> <table class="infobox vevent mobile-collapse-element"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-size: 125%; font-style: italic;">Tobacco Road</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size mw-image-border"><a href="/en/File:Poster_-_Tobacco_Road.jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:Poster_-_Tobacco_Road.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/40/Poster_-_Tobacco_Road.jpg/220px-Poster_-_Tobacco_Road.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="261" data-file-height="383" data-file-type="bitmap" height="323" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/Poster_-_Tobacco_Road.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/Poster_-_Tobacco_Road.jpg 2x" alt="Poster_-_Tobacco_Road.jpg"></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Theatrical release poster</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Directed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/John_Ford" title="John Ford" class="wl">John Ford</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Screenplay by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Nunnally_Johnson" title="Nunnally Johnson" class="wl">Nunnally Johnson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Based on</th><td class="infobox-data"><div><i><a href="/en/Tobacco_Road_(novel)" title="Tobacco Road (novel)" class="wl">Tobacco Road</a></i><br>1932 novel<br><i><a href="/en/Tobacco_Road_(play)" title="Tobacco Road (play)" class="wl">Tobacco Road</a></i><br>1933 play<br>by <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist" style="display: inline"><ul style="display: inline"><li style="display: inline"><a href="/en/Erskine_Caldwell" title="Erskine Caldwell" class="wl">Erskine Caldwell</a> (novel)</li><li><a href="/en/Jack_Kirkland" title="Jack Kirkland" class="wl">Jack Kirkland</a> (play)</li></ul></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Produced by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Darryl_F._Zanuck" title="Darryl F. Zanuck" class="wl">Darryl F. Zanuck</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Starring</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/en/Charley_Grapewin" title="Charley Grapewin" class="wl">Charley Grapewin</a></li><li><a href="/en/Marjorie_Rambeau" title="Marjorie Rambeau" class="wl">Marjorie Rambeau</a></li><li><a href="/en/Gene_Tierney" title="Gene Tierney" class="wl">Gene Tierney</a></li><li><a href="/en/William_Tracy" title="William Tracy" class="wl">William Tracy</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Cinematography</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Arthur_Charles_Miller" title="Arthur Charles Miller" class="mw-redirect wl">Arthur C. Miller</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Edited by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Barbara_McLean" title="Barbara McLean" class="wl">Barbara McLean</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Music by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/David_Buttolph" title="David Buttolph" class="wl">David Buttolph</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Color process</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Black_and_white" title="Black and white" class="wl">Black and white</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Production<br>company</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="vertical-align: middle;">20th Century Fox</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Distributed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/20th_Century_Fox" title="20th Century Fox" class="mw-redirect wl">20th Century Fox</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;white-space: normal;">Release date</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="plainlist ">
<ul><li>March<span>&nbsp;</span>7,<span>&nbsp;</span>1941<span style="display:none"><span>&nbsp;</span>(<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1941-03-07</span>)</span></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;white-space: normal;">Running time</div></th><td class="infobox-data">85 minutes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Box office</th><td class="infobox-data">$1,900,000 (US) (1973)</td></tr></tbody></table> <footer class='mobile-collapse-footer mobile-collapse-btn'><b>Close</b> <span class='arrow'>▲</span></footer></div>



Tobacco Road is a 1941 American comedy-drama film directed by John Ford and starring Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney and William Tracy. It was based on the 1932 novel of the same name by Erskine Caldwell and the 1933 Broadway play that Jack Kirkland adapted from the novel. 