

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.
Acting
Charley Grapewin's full-commitment dirtbag energy.
Direction
Ford somehow makes poverty... slapstick?

Director
John Ford
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Banned in the UK for years because censors thought it mocked poverty. They weren't entirely wrong.
Based on Erskine Caldwell's scandalous novel—so raunchy that this sanitized Ford version still shocked 1941 audiences.
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