Tobacco Road
20/02/1941
1h 24m



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.
Cast


Charley Grapewin
Jeeter Lester


Marjorie Rambeau
Sister Bessie Rice


Gene Tierney
Ellie May Lester


William Tracy
Dude Lester


Elizabeth Patterson
Ada Lester


Dana Andrews
Capt. Tim Harmon


Slim Summerville
Henry Peabody


Ward Bond
Lov Bensey


Grant Mitchell
George Payne


Zeffie Tilbury
Grandma Lester


Russell Simpson
Chief of Police


Spencer Charters
County Clerk


Irving Bacon
Bank Teller


Harry Tyler
Car Salesman


Charles Halton
Mayor


George Chandler
Hotel Desk Clark


Dorothy Adams
Susie Mae (uncredited)


Mae Marsh
County Clerk's Assistant (uncredited)


Jack Pennick
Policeman


Erville Alderson


Luke Cosgrave


Francis Ford
David Hughes


John 'Skins' Miller


Robert Shaw
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