ApprovedTobacco Road

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IMDB (2,586 votes)

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500M
500M
Play Time: 84 mins
Comedy, Drama
Tobacco Road

Overview:
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.

Status: Released (1941-02-20)
BoxOffice:$1,900,000
Screen:Nunnally Johnson, Jack Kirkland, Erskine Caldwell
Productions: 20th Century Fox
Production Countries: United States of America
Spoken Languages: English
Tobacco Road
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Charley Grapewin's "Jeeter" is the epitome of the collapsed grandeur of the once prosperous tobacco road in Georgia. Formerly the hub of cotton and tobacco growing, it's now largely dilapidated with those left scrounging and scraping to make any kind of living. Until now, they have b ....

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