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What does it say again, Uncle John?
It says: “Lots of work in California.
600 pickers wanted./"
Wait until I get to California. I will reach
and pick me an orange whenever I want.
Or grapes. Now, now, now there is
something I never had enough of.
I'm going to look for myself
a large bunch of grapes on a bush
and I'm going to crush them in my face
and I let the juice run down my chin.
Praise the Lord for the victory!
Maybe I'll look for myself
a whole washhouse full of grapes
and just sit in it and scrounge
around them until they are all gone.
I would like that.
Yes, sir, I would like that.
The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 American drama film directed by John Ford. It was based on John Steinbeck's 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Nunnally Johnson and the executive producer was Darryl F. Zanuck.
The film tells the story of the Joads, an Oklahoma family who, after losing their farm during the Great Depression of the 1930s, become migrant workers and end up in California. The film details their arduous journey across the United States as they travel to California in search of work and opportunities for family members, and features photography by Gregg Toland.
The film is widely considered one of the greatest films of all time. In 1989, it was one of the first 25 films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Plot
After being released from prison, Tom Joad hitchhikes to his sharecropper parents' farm in Oklahoma. He comes across Jim Casy, an itinerant man sitting under a tree on the side of the road. Tom remembers Casy as the preacher who baptized him, but Casy has "lost his mind" and his faith. Casy accompanies Tom to the Joad property. It's deserted but they find neighbor Muley Graves, hiding there. In a flashback, he describes how local farmers were forced off their farms by landowners, who demolished their homes with tractors. Tom soon finds the family at his uncle's house. The Joads migrate with other expelled families to the promised land of California. They pack everything into a dilapidated car adapted to serve as a truck to make the long journey. Casy decides to accompany them.
The journey along Highway 66 is arduous and it soon takes its toll on the Joad family. The old grandfather dies along the way. Tom writes the circumstances of the death on a page of the family Bible and places it on the body before burying it, so that his death will not be mistaken for homicide if it is discovered. They park at a camp and meet a migrant returning from California. He mocks Pa's optimism about opportunities in California and speaks bitterly of his experiences in the West. Grandma dies as they reach California. The eldest son, Noah, leaves the family, while the son-in-law, Connie, abandons his pregnant wife, Rose-of-Sharon.
The family arrives at the first migrant worker campsite. The camp is full of other hungry, jobless and desperate travelers. As their truck slowly makes its way through a row of slums and around the camp's starving residents, Tom notes, "Sure, doesn't look too prosperous./"
After noticing trouble between the sheriff and an agitator, the Joads hastily leave the camp. The family goes to another migrant camp, Keene Ranch. After working in the fields, they discover the high prices of food in the company store, the only one in the region. When a group of migrant workers strike, Tom wants to know more. He attends a secret meeting in the dark woods. When the gathering is discovered, Casy is killed by a camp guard. Tom inadvertently kills the guard while defending himself.
Tom suffers a serious injury to his cheek, making him easily recognizable. That evening, the family hides Tom when the guards arrive to look for who killed the guard. Tom avoids detection and the family leaves Keene Ranch without further incident. After driving for a while, the truck breaks down at the top of a hill. They are low on gas and decide to go down the hill to where there are lights. They arrive at the Farmworkers' Weedpatch Camp ("Wheat Patch"), a clean facility run by the Department of Agriculture, complete with indoor toilets and showers, which the Joad children have never seen before.
Tom is driven to work for change by what he has witnessed in the different camps. He tells his family that he plans to continue Casy's mission by fighting for workers' rights.
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