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May 24, 2012Monolith rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A bleak, heartwrenching tale, based on the Steinbeck novel, directed by legendary director John Ford. The migrant farmers escaping the Oklahoma dustbowl, (and foreclosure), during The Great Depression were effectively treated as slave labor. Prior to filming, producer Darryl F. Zanuck sent undercover investigators out to the migrant camps to see if John Steinbeck had been exaggerating about the squalor and unfair treatment meted out there. He was horrified to discover that, if anything, Steinbeck had actually downplayed what went on in the camps. Henry Fonda, John Carradine, (man, he was spooky, even back then), and the entire cast were phenomenal. A timeless film of the resiliency of the human spirit in the face of incomprehensible hardship. FIVE STARS.