Tobacco Road

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.

• Nunnally JohnsonScreenplay
• John FordDirector

• Charley GrapewinJeeter Lester
• Marjorie RambeauSister Bessie Rice
• Gene TierneyEllie May Lester
• William TracyDude Lester
• Elizabeth PattersonAda Lester
• Dana AndrewsCapt. Tim Harmon
• Slim SummervilleHenry Peabody
• Ward BondLov Bensey
• Grant MitchellGeorge Payne
• Zeffie TilburyGrandma Lester
• Russell SimpsonChief of Police
• Spencer ChartersCounty Clerk