Directed by:
John FordScreenplay:
Nunnally JohnsonCinematography:
Gregg TolandComposer:
Alfred NewmanCast:
Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon, Russell Simpson, O.Z. Whitehead, John Qualen, Eddie Quillan, Frank Sully (more)VOD (2)
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This remarkable film version of Steinbecks novel was nominated for seven Academy Awards®, including for Best Picture, Actor (Henry Fonda), Film Editing, Sound and Writing. John Ford won the Best Director Oscar® and actress Jane Darwell won Best Actress for her portrayal of Ma Joad, the matriarch of the struggling migrant farmer family. Following a prison term he served for manslaughter, Tom Joad returns to find his family homestead overwhelmed by weather and the greed of the banking industry. With little work potential on the horizon of the Oklahoma dust bowls, the entire family packs up and heads for the promised land ? California. But the arduous trip and harsh living conditions they encounter offer little hope, and family unity proves as daunting a challenge as any other they face. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Jack Pennick](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/929/159929178_5a25b1.jpg)
Jack Pennick
USA
Best movies:
City Girl (1930)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Stagecoach (1939)
![Steve Pendleton](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/946/159946562_55ec07.gif)
Steve Pendleton
USA
Best movies:
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
![Harry Strang](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/948/159948710_66f16a.gif)
Harry Strang
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
North by Northwest (1959)
Love Crazy (1941)
![William Haade](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/952/159952326_58cb3e.gif)
William Haade
USA
Best movies:
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
If I Were King (1938)
![Walter McGrail](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/011/160011755_031adf.jpg)
Walter McGrail
USA
Best movies:
Stagecoach (1939)
The Call of the Wild (1935)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
John Wallace
UK
Best movies:
The Gold Rush (1925)
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Frank O'Connor
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
![Ralph Dunn](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/217/160217090_340678.jpg)
Ralph Dunn
USA
Best movies:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
![Bill Wolfe](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/347/160347891_62c6f8.jpg)
Bill Wolfe
USA
Best movies:
San Francisco (1936)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Way Out West (1937)
![Bob Reeves](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/417/160417334_44ec54.gif)
Bob Reeves
USA
Best movies:
The Invisible Man (1933)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Storm Warning (1951)
![Joe Bordeaux](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/459/160459142_75c07a.jpg)
Joe Bordeaux
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
![Rex Lease](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/554/160554188_db386c.jpg)
Rex Lease
USA
Best movies:
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Brute Force (1947)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Frank Atkinson
Canada
Best movies:
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
![Paul Guilfoyle](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/759/160759989_c1ed2a.jpg)
Paul Guilfoyle
USA
Best movies:
White Heat (1949)
Julius Caesar (1953)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
![Dick Rich](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/765/160765038_57a286.gif)
Dick Rich
USA
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
![John Dilson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/767/160767459_2755b9.jpg)
John Dilson
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Al Stewart
Best movies:
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
![Zeffie Tilbury](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/259/161259047_0ec47b.jpg)
Zeffie Tilbury
UK
Best movies:
After the Thin Man (1936)
Camille (1921)
Desire (1936)
![Harry Cording](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/286/161286810_23f5df.jpg)
Harry Cording
UK
Best movies:
East of Eden (1955)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Louis Mason
USA
Best movies:
Adam's Rib (1949)
Stagecoach (1939)
A Stolen Life (1946)