Tobacco Road (film)

Tobacco Road
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJohn Ford
Screenplay byNunnally Johnson
Based on
Tobacco Road
1932 novel
Tobacco Road
1933 play
by
Produced byDarryl F. Zanuck
Starring
CinematographyArthur C. Miller
Edited byBarbara McLean
Music byDavid Buttolph
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • March 7, 1941 (1941-03-07)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1,900,000 (US) (1973)

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.[1] The plot was rewritten for the film by Nunnally Johnson, who had worked with Ford on The Grapes of Wrath the previous year; the plot was altered to fit Production Code demands for a lighter tone while retaining plot elements.[2]

  1. ^ "Tobacco Road – Broadway Show – Play | IBDB".
  2. ^ Crowther, Bosley."Tobacco Road (1941)",New York Times, February 21, 1941