The Grapes of Wrath (Blu-ray)
The Joads step right out of the pages of the novel that has shocked millions!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 9 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 5, 2012
- Originally Released: 1940
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Henry Fonda, Charley Grapewin, Doris Bowden, Russell Simpson, Jane Darwell & John Carradine | |
Performer: | O.Z. Whitehead, John Qualen, Eddie Quillan, Grant Mitchell & Zeffie Tilbury | |
Directed by | John Ford | |
Edited by | Robert Simpson | |
Screenwriting by | Nunnally Johnson | |
Art Direction by | Richard Day | |
Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck & Nunnally Johnson | |
Director of Photography: | Gregg Toland |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1940 -
Best Director: John Ford
Academy Awards 1940 -
Best Supporting Actress: Jane Darwell
Entertainment Reviews:
Captures the stark plainness of the migrants, stripped to a few possessions, left with innumerable relations and little hope.
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Time Out
Ranked #17 in Uncut's Best DVDs Of 2005 -- One of Ford's most beautiful films, and Fonda's performance is an essay in layered minimalism...
Uncut
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Back when they adapted serious literature for the big screen, the results were equally impressive.
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Cinema Sight
It's gorgeous, jaw-dropping work, rivaling Toland's deep-focus artistry in CITIZEN KANE.
Entertainment Weekly
The Grapes of Wrath narrates with feeling a melodrama turned into a graphic and resounding document. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Powerful look at the Depression and the poor.
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Classic Film and Television
The Grapes of Wrath is, in fact, the greatest master- piece the screen has ever produced; in it John Ford has established in vivid and inescapable terms the knowledge of good and evil.
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The Spectator
Product Description:
John Ford's memorable screen version of John Steinbeck's epic novel of the Great Depression--often regarded as the director's best film--stars Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. After having served a brief prison sentence for manslaughter, Joad arrives at his family's Oklahoma farm only to find it abandoned. Muley (John Qualen), a neighbor now nearly mad with grief, tells Tom of the drought that has transformed the farmland of Oklahoma into a desert and of the preying land agents who have plowed under the shacks of the sharecroppers. Joined by former hellfire preacher Casy (John Carradine), Tom finds his extended family, including Pa (Charles Grapewin) and his indomitable Ma (Jane Darwell), packing their ramshackle truck to seek work in the fields of California. As the family treks across the country, their dissolution begins with the deaths of Tom's grandparents at close intervals. When they arrive in California, the Joads find only an abundance of poverty-stricken migrants like themselves and little in the way of potential work. Yet, ever resilient, they maintain their dignity, hoping for the best.
Among the talented cast, Fonda does perhaps the best work of his career, as does Qualen in the film's most haunting sequence. Director of photography Gregg Toland captures the suffering and the weathered, luminous nobility of the Joads and the other uprooted, drifting families, creating striking images equal to the best work of Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans. In a stirring film that stands as a microcosm of the depression experience of millions, Ford gives poverty a human face in a way that was rare then and even rarer in the decades to follow as Hollywood films with a sense of class consciousness dwindled like a species nearing extinction.
Among the talented cast, Fonda does perhaps the best work of his career, as does Qualen in the film's most haunting sequence. Director of photography Gregg Toland captures the suffering and the weathered, luminous nobility of the Joads and the other uprooted, drifting families, creating striking images equal to the best work of Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans. In a stirring film that stands as a microcosm of the depression experience of millions, Ford gives poverty a human face in a way that was rare then and even rarer in the decades to follow as Hollywood films with a sense of class consciousness dwindled like a species nearing extinction.
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