Tobacco Road
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Tobacco Road is a 1941 American film adaptation of Erskine Caldwell’s novel, known for its darkly comic portrayal of a destitute rural Georgia family during the Great Depression.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tobacco Road canonical | 2 |
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Tobacco Road (novel) by Erskine Caldwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Erskine Caldwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Tobacco Road (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Ada Lester
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bessie Rice NERFINISHED ⓘ Dude Lester NERFINISHED ⓘ Ellie May Lester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Arthur C. Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | John Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Barbara McLean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
|
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| filmScoreComposer | David Buttolph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
ⓘ
comedy-drama ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationType | literary adaptation ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadCharacter | Jeeter Lester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
family dynamics
ⓘ
poverty ⓘ rural life ⓘ |
| medium | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | struggle to keep family farm ⓘ |
| narrativeTime | Great Depression NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controversial depiction of Southern sharecroppers
ⓘ
darkly comic portrayal of rural poverty ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Hollywood studio-era films ⓘ |
| portrays |
destitute sharecropper family
ⓘ
economic hardship in the American South ⓘ religious revivalism in rural South ⓘ tenant farming ⓘ |
| producer | Darryl F. Zanuck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfSourceWork | 1932 ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1940s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 84 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Nunnally Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| setInRegion | American South NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | rural Georgia ⓘ |
| title | Tobacco Road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
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