The Grapes of Wrath 1940 123movies

Watch: The Grapes of Wrath 1940 123movies, Full Movie Online – The Joad clan, introduced to the world in John Steinbeck’s iconic novel, is looking for a better life in California. After their drought-ridden farm is seized by the bank, the family — led by just-paroled son Tom — loads up a truck and heads West. On the road, beset by hardships, the Joads meet dozens of other families making the same trek and holding onto the same dream. Once in California, however, the Joads soon realize that the promised land isn’t quite what they hoped..
Plot: Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life… Hopefully.
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Economic Dislocation
John Ford’s film of John Steinbeck’s novel has deservedly a classic film mirroring the views of both men and the times the book was written and filmed. Ford won his second Oscar for Best Director and Jane Darwell was the Best Supporting Actress of 1940.

For most of America the Depression started with the stock market crash of 1929. But for the farmers it really began at the end of World War I. Those were good years for agriculture, the war in Europe was a boom for agriculture. But when farm prices dropped after the Armistice, a whole lot of family farms went belly up. Lots of people left the farms for the big city and industry jobs. The Depression years unhappily coincided with some of the worst drought ever seen in America.

This is what many families like the Joads were facing in 1939 when the book was written. The banks had foreclosed on land that had withered to dust in any event. Folks like the Joads picked up and moved elsewhere, like California on a rumor of prosperity and jobs.

America was still changing from an agricultural to an industrial society back then. That causes a lot of trouble for people unskilled in any industrial job training. As a country we’re going through something similar today in many areas. We’re moving from an industrial to an information based economy. Industry jobs are being lost to other nations and older and poorer workers are suffering for it. It’s progress I guess, but it takes its toll.

Some factory worker who has lost his job for any number of reasons can identify to some degree with the Joads, especially if they’ve lost a home they owned. For the Joads it was worse because they made their living off the land for many generations, identifying with it in a way that industrial workers could not.

Henry Fonda got his first Oscar nomination for Tom Joad. To get the part which he knew he was so right for, he signed a studio contract with 20th Century Fox. That caused him many problems later on, but those are stories for another film review.

Tom Joad is a midwest country kid, a whole lot like Fonda himself. Part of the story of The Grapes of Wrath is Tom himself trying to figure out why these economic forces are crushing him and his family and the way of life he’s known. In the end when he leaves the Joad family and hits the open road, he’s not got all the answers, but he’s asking the questions. Tom hasn’t figured it out, but a lot of people with many letters after their names haven’t either. He only knows that he’s got to get in the fight for economic justice.

Jane Darwell was in films from the earliest silent films to Mary Poppins in 1965. This became her career part and the mother role of all time. She’s what holds the Joad family together in good times and bad. That’s what moms do and get little recognition for it. Except in this case by the Motion Picture Academy.

John Carradine has his career part in this also. Another John Ford favorite, Carradine plays Casy the defrocked preacher who as he tells it disgraced himself with a female parishioner. After that preaching the gospel didn’t seem quite right. When Fonda meets Carradine after Fonda’s been released from prison, Carradine is asking a lot of questions about what is man’s place in the metaphysical scheme of things. He’s developing what we would now call situational ethics. Carradine’s questions are on a higher plane, but he certainly inspires Fonda to ask for some answers himself.

The Grapes of Wrath illustrates that at least government can give first aid in a crisis. After being in privately run agricultural camps where they’re treated like less than dirt, the Joads happen upon a camp run by the Department of Agriculture where at least they’re treated like humans. As it turns out, the Secretary of Agriculture was one Henry A. Wallace who was running for Vice President that year with Franklin D. Roosevelt. I’ll bet any number of people saw The Grapes of Wrath and saw a message of support for FDR and the New Deal.

Given some of the problems of the American economy today, The Grapes of Wrath though it appears dated isn’t really all that much a relic of our past. It’s both a timeless book and a timeless classic film.

Wherever they’re showing the Grapes of Wrath, that’s where I’ll be
Do I have your attention? Okay: Go out and watch this movie immediately because to not do so is, well, it’s un-American. John Ford, with this nifty little film, made the greatest argument for populist/socialist politics in cinematic history. This movie understands the Depression and the Dust Bowl and the poor and the hungry and the starving and all those people that the sign at Ellis Island (or is it at the Statue of Liberty?) says that we’ll take on and help. It understands those people better than anyone or anything else I know. Steinbeck’s novel helps this movie get to where it needs to be, but, let’s be honest, the Grapes of Wrath is all John Ford.

The sweeping vistas, the excellent editing and pacing, and the acting are of the highest caliber, as befits a John Ford film. I’m amazed every time I see this movie just how moving it is without straying into trite sentimentality. Tom Joad’s speech at the end always makes me cry–his chilly delivery of the word homicide at the beginning continues to give me a prickly spine. Fonda was a great actor, and he is certainly at the top of his game here. Without him, interestingly, the film would have probably floundered. No one else could have possibly played Tom Joad; no one would have that charm and charisma and, most importantly, that voice. The rest of the cast is amazing, don’t misunderstand, but Henry Fonda is Henry Fonda–an actor unto himself. There is no one like him and never will there be; he is the single most watchable actor of all time.

And this isn’t even my favorite John Ford movie! Nevertheless, it’s a great film with a great message. Call me a pinko (it’s been done before), but what’s superb about this movie is its humanism. Yeah, the ideology promotes a type of socialism (ahem, I mean, let’s not forget that that is basically what the New Deal was and if you think that system was a bad idea, then fine), but, really, the movie is about caring for people who don’t have the resources to care for themselves. Grapes of Wrath is not a scathing indictment of anyone; it’s a simple portrait of a family’s struggles to overcome the Depression. It’s uplifting and shows a real feeling for the downtrodden, and that’s more than you can say about most American films that intend to deal with the poor and hungry.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 9 min (129 min), 1 hr 48 min (108 min) (cut) (West Germany)
Budget 800000
Revenue 1591000
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Drama
Director John Ford
Writer Nunnally Johnson, John Steinbeck
Actors Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine
Country United States
Awards Won 2 Oscars. 10 wins & 5 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera Mitchell Camera
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 3,531.4 m (14 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm