Is Tobacco Road violent?

Not especially. Less violent than 64% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Does Tobacco Road end with hope?

Not especially. Less hopeful than 64% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Is Tobacco Road easy watching?

About average. Almost exactly mid-range for a well-known film. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Is Tobacco Road scary?

About average. Almost exactly mid-range for a well-known film. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Tobacco Road

Name: Tobacco Road
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1941
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy, Elizabeth Patterson

ON THE SCREEN AT LAST! The Picture you've waited eight years to see...Picturized by the men who gave you "GRAPES OF WRATH"

Directed by John Ford

Produced by 20th Century Fox

194184 min6.8 / 10

A slapstick rural comedy-drama about a struggling sharecropping family facing economic displacement, balancing broad humor with the melancholy of lost gentility and social decline.

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.

Clusters

Underdog Team Victories Dark Comedy Drama Weddings and Marriage Professional Occupations Blue-Collar Jobs

Genres

Comedy Drama

Keywords

Banker Marriage Georgia Hillbilly Backwoods Sharecropper

Questions people ask

Is Tobacco Road violent? Not especially. Less violent than 64% of films.
Does Tobacco Road end with hope? Not especially. Less hopeful than 64% of films.
Is Tobacco Road easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.
Is Tobacco Road sad? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.
Is Tobacco Road scary? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.