Capital Celluloid 2024 — Day 92: Mon Apr 1

The Grapes of Wrath (Ford, 1940): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 8.10pm


This film is part of the Big Screen Classics season at BFI Southbank and also screens on April 20th. Full details here.

Chicago Reader review:
John Ford’s Oscar-winning 1940 vision of the ant line of Okies marching across the Depression desert to California was based on John Steinbeck’s best seller, and it remains, for better or worse, Ford’s best-known and most “respectable” film. Ford’s admirers have rightly tended to play this down in favor of his later and more personal westerns, but there’s much to admire here in Gregg Toland’s sun-beaten photography and Henry Fonda’s meticulous performance as Steinbeck’s dashboard saint, Tom Joad.
Dave Kehr

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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