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	The Grapes of Wrath
		The Grapes of Wrath was released in 1940 to rave reviews from critics and public alike, and the following year the Academy Awards also hailed the film, naming Ford Best Director and Darwell Best Supporting Actress for her magnificent performance as indomitable Ma Joad (a part that almost went to Beulah Bondi).
		The Grapes of Wrath is not only one of John Ford’s greatest films, it documents an American social tragedy, giving the victims a voice through art.
		In any event, it took considerable courage to make The Grapes of Wrath at a time when the Hollywood studios, on guard against unionization and attempts to challenge their monopoly, were in no mood to indulge its indictment of capitalism.
	www.univie.ac.at /Anglistik/easyrider/data/GrapesWr.htm (2109 words)

	John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
		The Grapes of Wrath made such an indelible impact on the minds of Americans that just a few years later, when Preston Sturges made a funny and moving film which responded to and parodied The Grapes of Wrath, called Sullivan's Travels (1941), everyone recognized the connection.
		Despite this criticism, The Grapes of Wrath was an extremely popular and critically well-received movie; Ford won the Oscar for Best Director, although Henry Fonda lost out as Best Actor to James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story.
		Byron Preiss's brief biography of Grapes of Wrath author, John Steinbeck.
	www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/grapes.html (614 words)

	Steinbeck's myth of the Okies by Keith Windschuttle
		In the film of The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck& statement that people owned their land not because they had a piece of paper but because they had been born on it, worked on it, and died on it is given to the half-crazy character Muley Graves.
		Originally published in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath remains a widely studied text in both high schools and universities, and the 1940 John Ford film of the book still enjoys healthy sales on videotape and frequent reruns on classic movie shows on cable television.
		The Grapes of Wrath described a model camp of this kind in the form of Weedpatch where the Joads stay for a while.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/20/jun02/steinbeck.htm (5181 words)

	Encyclopedia article: The Grapes of Wrath
		The Grapes of Wrath is a work of fiction published by John Steinbeck (United States writer noted for his novels about agricultural workers (1902-1968)) in 1939, in which descriptive, narrative, and philosophical passages succeed one another.
		The title is a reference to the Battle Hymn of the Republic (additional info and facts about the Battle Hymn of the Republic), by Julia Ward Howe (United States feminist who was active in the women's suffrage movement (1819-1910)), where she describes God as "trampling out the vineyards where the grapes of wrath are stored".
		A film (Photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies) version was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck (additional info and facts about Darryl F. Zanuck) in 1940.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_grapes_of_wrath.htm (546 words)

	Understanding The Grapes of Wrath: A Novel by John Steinbeck
		"The Grapes of Wrath is arguably the most celebrated work of John Steinbeck's illustrious career, and both the play and film based on the novel are classics in their own right.
		The Grapes of Wrath by Ed Stephan of Western Washington University, Bellingham WA.
		Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath from Western Washington University.
	www.aresearchguide.com /wrath.html (2353 words)

	SULAIR: AmLitStudies: John Steinbeck Collections
		The Forgotten Village was Steinbeck's first major project after The Grapes of Wrath and this collection provides a thorough record of Steinbeck's composition of the screenplay and of his contribution to the production of the film.
		Based on his visits to Depression-era migrant labor camps in California's Central Valley, Grapes of Wrath was also made into a major motion picture in 1940, the second of ten of his books to be filmed.
		With The Grapes of Wrath (1939), for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Steinbeck arrived at international renown.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/hasrg/ablit/amerlit/steinbeck.html (1798 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: The Grapes of Wrath
		The Grapes of Wrath is a prime example of the proletarian novel that was popular during the Great Depression in which ordinary working class families (especially agricultural workers) became the focus.
		Written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939&; The Grapes of Wrath describes the Depression era journey of the fictional Joad family from the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma to the agricultural fields of California.
		While more optimistic in tone than the novel, the film presents a bleak look at the conditions of migrant farm workers during the Great Depression.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100533 (662 words)

	3c. Grapes of Wrath [Beyond Books - American Literary Voices Part 2]
		The 1940 film version of The Grapes of Wrath was deemed too depressing by some movie-goers even though director John Ford added inspiring monologues by Ma and Tom Joad.
		In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
		The Grapes of Wrath reveals, through spotlighting one humble family's fight against all types of physical, social, and economic adversity, an appreciation for gaining strength through deprivation.
	www.beyondbooks.com /lam12/3c.asp (1160 words)

	Grapes of Wrath: Horace Bristol Photos (Getty Exhibitions)
		Although Bristol's planned photographic book was never realized, these images were used as reference material while casting and costuming the 1940 film version of The Grapes of Wrath.
		He renamed his 1937–38 photographs of migrant camps and titled the series The Grapes of Wrath to identify it with Steinbeck's 1939 novel of the same title.
		With its muddy foreground, grimy tents, and cloudy sky, this photograph conveys the desolate surroundings of a camp in Visalia during the winter of 1937–38.
	www.getty.edu /art/exhibitions/bristol (409 words)

	The Grapes of Wrath News
		Those films are: It Happened One Night, Bringing Up Baby, Gone with the Wind, The Grapes of Wrath, The Maltese Falcon, It's a Wonderful Life, and The Searchers.
		The Grapes of Wrath News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		A magnificent film and among the handful that truly can be considered timeless, Drums Along the Mohawk finds director John Ford and stars Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert at the top of their form in an...
	www.topix.net /movies/the-grapes-of-wrath (1036 words)

	The Grapes of Wrath Scene from the 1940 film The Grapes of Wrath.
		Scene from the 1940 film The Grapes of Wrath.
		To view the illustrations for this work get the:
	www.enotes.com /grapes/26996/print (1036 words)

	OnWisconsin Live Movies: Seabiscuit
		It's hard enough for a film to be true to a book, much less a life, and this one also owes a debt to Horatio Alger, "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Ferdinand the Bull." And its lacquered portrait of men bonding over competition is at the heart of every sports movie ever made.
		Laura Hillenbrand's fascinating biography of the legendary racehorse is a full-blooded portrait of an intelligent and sentient creature that the gauzy period film never quite captures.
		'Seabiscuit': Film goes off track with larger themes
	www.onwisconsin.com /movies/movie.asp?id=864 (622 words)

	channel4.com/film - Tobacco Road
		Ford's adaptation of Jack Kirkland's play, based on Erskine Caldwell's novel, returns to similar territory he had depicted so successfully in The Grapes of Wrath, but this is a more sentimental, less serious film.
		The film was compromised with censorship concerns (the play and book are much bawdier) and more stagy than you would expect from Ford, but Tobacco Road still manages to be engaging, odd and genuinely subversive.
		Their ancestors were wealthy planters, but now their easy-going existence is threatened by a bank's claim to their land.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=109415 (125 words)

	The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)
		The film's themes include the central importance of the family, the suffering and oppression of the farmers, the hollowness of the American Dream, the display of human dignity and spirit in the face of adversity, and issues of social and economic justice.
		Not present in the novel or the screenplay is a tacked-on ending in the film that optimistically and sentimentally affirms the strength and human dignity of the individual spirit.
		And the musical score by Alfred Newman used variations of "Red River Valley" to give the film added flavor.
	www.filmsite.org /grap.html (125 words)

	Hans Film Sites - Drama
		Problems of the poor and dispossessed have often been the themes of the great films, including The Good Earth (1937) with Chinese peasants facing famine, storms, and locusts, and John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940) about an indomitable, Depression-Era Okie family - the Joads - who survived a tragic journey from Oklahoma to California.
		Films that were concerned with race relations included Hollywood's first major indictment of racism in producer Stanley Kramer's and director Mark Robson's Home of the Brave (1949), the story of a black WWII soldier facing bigoted insults from his squad.
		The brilliant, classic film of the behind-the scenes world of the New York theater and its grande dame (Bette Davis) and the duplicity of a brash and ambitious newcomer was the subject of the award-winning All About Eve (1950) from writer/director Joseph Mankiewicz.
	home.zonnet.nl /sonkej/movies/htm/drama.htm (2981 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - The Southerner Film Notes
		Butler, a Left screenwriter who would soon be caught in the maelstrom of the Hollywood blacklist, saw the film as an opportunity to venture into political areas which the film version of The Grapes of Wrath had neglected.
		Jean Renoir, son of the painter and already, at 27, the acknowledged patriarch of the French dramatic film, arrived in the United States in February of 1941, a refugee from the tragedy of France's fall.
		The moving antiwar film Grand Illusion (1937) and the social tragicomedy The Rules of the Game (1939), generally considered his masterwork, confirmed Renoir’s regard as a filmmaker of genius.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/fns03n10.html (2981 words)

	John Huston: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		Explores the film's parallels to elements in "The Grapes of Wrath" and their common theme of the hero's mythic journey.
		Gangster films traditionally ignore the significance of marriage, film noir rejects it, and screwball comedy affirms marriage's regenerative possibilities.
		" John Huston's 1987 adaptation of James Joyce's "The Dead" creates a visual world for the voice of Lily, the servant, to express the story's cultural underworld.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/hustonbib.html (2734 words)

	FGA - Sam Wood
		All five were responsible for a string of commercial and artistic successes during my formative years, and I find that many of the films directed by these men have survived very well: Jesse James, The Grapes Of Wrath, Casablanca, Sergeant York, and Kings Row.
		Many of Wood's detractors maintain that it was Menzies who contributed the most to these great films through his great visual sense.
		thoroughly understood the business of making filmed entertainment." (p.121) Directors such as Sam Wood helped to give us some of our most enduring entertainments and, as such, deserve to be remembered, studied, and appreciated.
	www.filmsofthegoldenage.com /foga/1996/winter/swood.shtml (2734 words)

	Alibris: Wrath
		Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, "The Grapes of Wrath" is also the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California.
		Published to coincide with the film based on her book "Pay It Forward, Electric God" is a story of human failings and superhuman strengths: a contemporary reinterpretation of the Book of Job set in modern-day California.
		The Wrath of Nations: Civilization and the Furies of Nationalism
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Wrath (1243 words)

	Wrath of Khan - AskTheBrain.com
		This photograph of the cast and crew of STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN was given to the film's editor, William P. On June 4th, 1982, "Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan" opened into theatres which happened to be the weekend before "E. Craig Leveaux,
		I think the sequel should be called Star Trek XI: The Grapes of Wrath of Khan with Hulk Hogan as Khan.
		Seen briefly in Star Trek the Motion Picture and used in Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan.
	www.askthebrain.com /khan_wrath-.html (1243 words)

	hackwriters.com - The Road Movie - An Introduction by Sam North - Part One
		In the 1973 Robert Altman's film 'Thieves Like Us' about criminals on the run in the impoverished 1930's landscape provided a brilliant companion piece to the earlier film 'The Grapes of Wrath, which was more about dignity among the poor, than honour among thieves.
		One of the most successful early road movies is John Ford's 'The Grapes of Wrath'.
		The road became a signifier for freedom and the romance of the 'road' became a way of life that would be celebrated in literature and film for the entire twentieth century.
	www.hackwriters.com /roadone.htm (3165 words)

	Understanding The Grapes of Wrath: A Novel by John Steinbeck
		Includes an Introduction to the 3 novels, and 15 questions on the Grapes of Wrath, e.g.: As Tom leaves the family, he says, "I'll be ever'where—wherever you look" (p.
		It points out that it was this novel "The Grapes of Wrath" that "served to immortalize Route 66 in the American consciousness.
		Contents: About the Author John Steinbeck, Short Summary of the Novel, Full Summary and Analysis, Character List, Summary and Analysis of Chapters 1-30, plus Essays: Contrasting the Movie and Novel Form of the Grapes of Wrath, Four Pages of Fear, Hostility, and Exploitation, and All in the Family in The Grapes of Wrath.
	www.aresearchguide.com /wrath.html (2353 words)

	The Searchers (1956)
		It was his 115th feature film, and he was already a four-time Best Director Oscar winner (The Informer (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), and The Quiet Man (1952)) - all for his pictures of social comment rather than his quintessential westerns.
		The film's screenplay was adapted by Frank S. Nugent (director Ford's son-in-law) from Alan Le May's 1954 novel of the same name, that was first serialized as a short story in late fall 1954 issues of the Saturday Evening Post, and first titled The Avenging Texans.
		With dazzling on-location, gorgeous VistaVision cinematography (including the stunning red sandstone rock formations of Monument Valley) by Winton C. Hoch in Ford's most beloved locale, the film handsomely captures the beauty and isolating danger of the frontier.
	www.filmsite.org /sear.html (2148 words)

	John Steinbeck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The film versions of The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men (by two different movie studios) were in production simultaneously, and Steinbeck had the immensely satisfying experience of spending a full day on the set of The Grapes of Wrath, then spending the next day on the set of Of Mice and Men.
		Seventeen of his works, including Cannery Row (1945) and The Pearl (1947), went on to become Hollywood films, and Steinbeck himself achieved success as a Hollywood writer, garnering an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing for Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, in 1945.
		Steinbeck wrote in the naturalist style, often about poor working-class people, and his body of work reflects his wide range of interests, including marine biology, jazz, politics, philosophy, history, and myth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steinbeck (2784 words)

	Henry Fonda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fonda's successes with Ford led Ford to recruit him to play "Tom Joad" in the film version of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath (1940), but a reluctant Darryl Zanuck, who preferred Tyrone Power, insisted on Fonda's signing a seven-year contract with the studio, Twentieth Century-Fox.
		He won a 1948 Tony Award for the part, and later reprised his performance in the national tour and 1955 film version opposite James Cagney, continuing a pattern of bringing his acclaimed stage roles to life on the big screen.
		On the set of Mister Roberts, Fonda came to blows with John Ford and vowed never to work for him again.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Fonda (2873 words)

	Classic Films/John Ford
		Through the war years, Ford continued to score hits with such films as Stagecoach (1939 New York Film Critics Award), The Grapes of Wrath (1940 Oscar and New York Film Critics Award) and How Green Was My Valley (1941 Oscar and New York Film Critics Award).
		After the war, Ford's critical reputation suffered a bit, though the films in his unofficial Cavalry Trilogy - Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Rio Grande (1950) - would later be hailed as masterpieces.
		He made documentaries for the Navy during World War II, winning Oscars for The Battle of Midway (1942) and December 7th (1943).
	www.niksula.cs.hut.fi /%7Ehrajala/ClassicFilms/ford.html (2873 words)

	Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels (1941)
		In this "screwball comedy," writer-director Preston Sturges lampoons the earnestness of John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath and still tells a moving story of the impact of the Great Depression on hte so-called "Lost Men" of the era.
		By the end of the film, Sturges has made an eloquent plea for the importance of popular culture in the lives of Americans.
		Think of the "cultural work" performed by the Mickey Mouse film at the end of the film especially.
	www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/americanstudies/lavender/sturges.html (268 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Grapes Of Wrath [1940]: Video
		Ma Joad's (Jane Darwell) speech at the end of the film takes away the desperation seen throughout the film.
		There is the privately-run labor camps' utter desolation, complete with violent guards, exploitative wages, lack of food and unsanitary conditions; contrasted with the relative security and more humane conditions of the camps run by the State.
		A moving story of the migration to California of an Oklahoma family during the 'Dust-Bowl' period of the 1930's.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CJ5K (1497 words)

	Nunnally Johnson
		- Johnson was married to former leading lady Dorris Bowdon, whom he met in 1940 when she was starring the John Ford film The Grapes of Wrath.
		The film produced many imitations, such as The Devil's Brigade, A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die, etc. The Dirty Dozed ended Johnson's career which spanned 40 years, from the last years of the silent film to the age of the Aquarius.
		It was shot on the set of How Green Was My Valley.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /nunnally.htm (1616 words)

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