Tobacco Road
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.
Top Billed Cast
Charley Grapewin
Jeeter Lester
Marjorie Rambeau
Sister Bessie Rice
Gene Tierney
Ellie May Lester
William Tracy
Dude Lester
Elizabeth Patterson
Ada Lester
Featured Crew
Jack Kirkland
Theatre Play
Nunnally Johnson
Screenplay
John Ford
Director
Erskine Caldwell
Novel
James Basevi
Art Direction
Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer
Barbara McLean
Editor
Thomas Little
Set Decoration
Richard Day
Art Direction
David Buttolph
Music
Arthur C. Miller
Director of Photography
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