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During the 1920'5, the Joad family from Oklahoma's dustbowl loses the family farm to bank foreclosure and, in search of work and a better life, sets out for California, the promised land. Son Tom returns home after serving a jail sentence just as the family starts its move west. Grandpa dies and is buried along the road. Tom's pregnant sister is deserted by her husband. The family ends up in a U.S. Government camp for the homeless and unemployed. This masterpiece of cinematography is also one of the greatest film works on the Great Depression. It was also a statement of support by director John Ford (1895-1973) for the New Deal programs of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Ford himself did just about everything involved in filmmaking. He was a laborer, assistant prop man, stuntman, stand-in for his older brother (whom he greatly resembled), an extra (a Ku Klux Klansman in D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation), assistant director... As an artist, he was driven more by emotions and instinct than by intellect. Asked which American director he most admired, Orson Welles responded, "The old masters ...John Ford, John Ford and John Ford."

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