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
Charley Grapewin
Jeeter Lester
Marjorie Rambeau
Sister Bessie Rice
Gene Tierney
Ellie May Lester
William Tracy
Dude Lester
Elizabeth Patterson
Ada Lester
Dana Andrews
Capt. Tim Harmon
Slim Summerville
Henry Peabody
Ward Bond
Lov Bensey
Grant Mitchell
George Payne
Zeffie Tilbury
Grandma Lester
Russell Simpson
Chief of Police
Spencer Charters
County Clerk
Irving Bacon
Bank Teller
Harry Tyler
Car Salesman
Charles Halton
Mayor
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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