---
title: 'Tobacco Road (1941)'
type: 'film'
director: 'John Ford'
released: '1941-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 84
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/tobacco-road-1941'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034297/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Tobacco Road (1941)

1941 · 84 min · United States


## Synopsis

Tobacco Road is a 1941 American Southern Gothic film directed by John Ford and starring Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney and William Tracy. It was based on the 1932 novel of the same name by Erskine Caldwell and the 1933 Broadway play that Jack Kirkland adapted from the novel. The plot was rewritten for the film by Nunnally Johnson, who had worked with Ford on The Grapes of Wrath the previous year; the plot was altered to fit Production Code demands for a lighter tone while retaining plot elements.

## Credits

- **Director:** [John Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-ford)
- **Screenplay:** [Nunnally Johnson](https://cinepixo.com/people/nunnally-johnson)
- **Original Music Composer:** [David Buttolph](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-buttolph)
- **Producer:** [Darryl F. Zanuck](https://cinepixo.com/people/darryl-f-zanuck)
- **Director of Photography:** [Arthur Charles Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-charles-miller)
- **Editor:** [Barbara McLean](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbara-mclean)

## Cast

- [Ward Bond](https://cinepixo.com/people/ward-bond)
- [Gene Tierney](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-tierney)
- [Russell Simpson](https://cinepixo.com/people/russell-simpson)
- [Elizabeth Patterson](https://cinepixo.com/people/elizabeth-patterson)
- [Slim Summerville](https://cinepixo.com/people/slim-summerville)
- [Jack Pennick](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-pennick)
- [Marjorie Rambeau](https://cinepixo.com/people/marjorie-rambeau)
- [Dorothy Adams](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-adams)
- [Charles Trowbridge](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-trowbridge)
- [Charley Grapewin](https://cinepixo.com/people/charley-grapewin)
- [Mae Marsh](https://cinepixo.com/people/mae-marsh)
- [George Chandler](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-chandler)
- [Dana Andrews](https://cinepixo.com/people/dana-andrews)
- [Irving Bacon](https://cinepixo.com/people/irving-bacon)
- [Zeffie Tilbury](https://cinepixo.com/people/zeffie-tilbury)

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