
Tobacco Road
66.00%|February 20, 1941|Comedy, Drama
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.
Featured Crew
Jack Kirkland
Theatre Play
Nunnally Johnson
Screenplay
Erskine Caldwell
Novel
Cast

Charley Grapewin
Jeeter Lester

Marjorie Rambeau
Sister Bessie Rice

Gene Tierney
Ellie May Lester

William Tracy
Dude Lester

Elizabeth Patterson
Ada Lester