The Grapes of Wrath (1940) [NR]

Release Date:
March 15, 1940

Original Title:
The Grapes of Wrath

Alternate Titles:
De druiven der gramschap
Las uvas de la ira
Les raisins de la colère
怒火之花
분노의 포도

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
20th Century Fox

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: PG  BR: 12  DE: 12  ES: APTA  FR: TP  GB: PG  NL: 6  SE: 15  US: NR 

Runtime: 129

The Joads step right out of the pages of the novel that has shocked millions!

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Video

Click each video panel to show or hide.

Although TheMovieDB might provide a key to a YouTube video, there is no guarantee that the video might be present at YouTube.

American Film Institute (AFI)

1998
#21
100 Years: 100 MOVIES
100 Greatest American Movies Of All Time
2003
#12
100 Years: 100 HEROES & VILLAINS
50 Greatest Heroes
“Tom Joad”
2006
#7
100 Years: 100 CHEERS
100 Most Inspiring Films Of All Time
2007
#23
100 Years: 100 MOVIES — 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
100 Greatest American Films Of All Time

British Film Institute (BFI)

1952
#13
Critics' Top 10 Poll
Greatest Films of All Time

Art Direction:
Richard Day
Mark-Lee Kirk

Assistant Director:
Edward O'Fearna
Wingate Smith

Assistant Property Master:
William Sittel

Associate Producer:
Nunnally Johnson

Author:
John Steinbeck

Camera Operator:
Bert Shipman

Camera Supervisor:
Cliff Shirpser

Costume Design:
Gwen Wakeling

Costume Supervisor:
Sam Benson

Director:
John Ford

Director of Photography:
Gregg Toland

Editor:
Robert L. Simpson

Gaffer:
Vic Jones
Bill McLellan

Makeup Artist:
Charles Gemora

Makeup Department Head:
Gustaf Norin

Original Music Composer:
Alfred Newman

Producer:
Darryl F. Zanuck

Production Manager:
Ralph Dietrich

Screenplay:
Nunnally Johnson

Second Unit:
Otto Brower

Set Decoration:
Thomas Little

Sound Designer:
Roger Heman Sr.
George Leverett
Edmund H. Hansen

Sound Effects Editor:
Robert Parrish

Unit Production Manager:
Bernard McEveety

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.