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My high school American Literature class read the book this semester and I purchased the DVD to enrich their reading experience. I love the DVD; it allowed us to talk about director John Ford's choice of leaving out of the film certain scenes from the book. The great historical perspective the DVD offers about the drought years and also about the filming process my students found intriguing. I would highly recommend this DVD for a similar class or for any movie buff who wants to see a great movie filmed by a master director. It's a slice of film history at its finest and a look at how America responded (or didn't)to those who lost everything except faith and the will to persevere. I hope this review was helpful.
A real must have classic movie about the dust bowl days of no work and farmers losing their land,being run off after living there a hundred yrs. No work and traveling to the land of milk and honey...Calif with promise of plenty of work, when in reality there was not so much work and the wages paid was just afew cents a day, not even eough to feed the family....it's about the hardships in those days,the endurance, the injustice.....the love. It's truely a wonderful movie. One of Henry Fonda's first movies....lots of star actors. A real portrayal of what life was like way back when.
Funny, but although my wife says that this is a staple of high school English classes across the country, I don't ever recall reading the book or seeing the movie in class. I bought this DVD for some background entertainment concerning old US Route 66, prior to a trip I've been planning along the remaining sections for some time. I would rate this as a must see to learn how rough it was on people from the farming states in the Midwest during the dust bowl years. How they risked everything to try and overcome desolation and despair, only to find more where the grass was supposed to be greener. Through the entire movie, the Joad family continued to show a gritty triumph of the human spirit regardless the pitfall before them. As far as the product was concerned, the DVD was of the highest quality and packaged as best as any could be expected, a fine purchase all around.Read full review
It is a film that depicts the era of the depression. John Ford did an excellent direction of this movie. Plenty of background what people had to go through to search for a better life.
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everyone should watch this movie so they can see what life was like during the Great Depression.. They will no longer have so many things to complain about as they do now.. Life is easy compared to back then.
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