Tobacco Road

Synopsis: Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of hillbilly stereotypes live in a rural backwater 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; subplots involve the affairs and marriages of son Dude and daughter Ellie May.

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Director(s): John Ford

Actors: Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy

Production: 20th Century Fox


IMDB:: 6.6

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: APPROVED
Year:: 1941
: 84 min
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...for the first 10 years
we was married...
...and them was the happiest
10 years of my life.
She runs away too.
I'm sick and tired
of the whole business.
Give her time, boy. She'll be all right.
She ain't but 13, remember.
You listen to me, Lov Bensey.
If you don't like what she's doing,
bring her back home.
Get yourself another wife.
You can have Ellie May.
Oh, every time I say anything,
y'all want me to marry Ellie May.
Well, it ain't no use,
that's all there is to it.
I want a young wife. I ain't gonna take
no 23-year-old woman for a wife...
...and have everybody
laughing at me.
- Hey, Lov.
- Hey, Ellie May.
It's Pearl I'm talking about.
Lov, will you tell me whatever it is
you got in that croker sack?
I been looking at it
since you come here...
...and Lord knows
I'm just dying to know.
Turnips, by cracky.
Turnips. I ain't...
I ain't had me a good turnip
since a year ago last spring...
...and, oh, the good Lord only knows
how bad I've wanted one.
Why, you know, I could eat me
that whole croker sack full of...
I could eat me
a whole wagonload full of turnips...
...between now and sundown.
Don't look for me to give you none,
because I ain't.
Well, that's a whopping mean thing
to say to Pearl's poor old pa.
Ain't you gonna give me
just a bite, Lov?
No.
I tell you what I'll do.
I'll make you a trade
for some of them there turnips.
I ain't trading turnips with nobody.
If you'll give me
some of them turnips...
...I'll go to your house
the first thing in the morning...
...and tell Pearl to behave herself.
Tell her that ain't no way
to treat a man...
...who's gone to the bother
of marrying her.
And I'll tell her she's gotta
stop hiding in them bushes...
...and ask if it's gonna rain.
- And are you gonna get your hair cut.
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