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Release Date:
7 March 1941 (USA) more
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Produced by the men who gave you..."GRAPES OF WRATH" more
Plot:
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of hillbilly stereotypes live in a rural backwater where their ancestors were once wealthy planters... more | add synopsis
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Hillbilly Hell more (13 total)

Cast

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Charley Grapewin ... Jeeter Lester
Marjorie Rambeau ... Sister Bessie Rice

Gene Tierney ... Ellie May Lester
William Tracy ... Dude Lester
Elizabeth Patterson ... Ada Lester

Dana Andrews ... Capt. Tim Harmon
Slim Summerville ... Henry Peabody
Ward Bond ... Lov Bensey
Grant Mitchell ... George Payne (banker)
Zeffie Tilbury ... Grandma Lester
Russell Simpson ... Chief of Police
Spencer Charters ... County Clerk
Irving Bacon ... Bank teller
Harry Tyler ... Auto dealer
Charles Halton ... Mayor
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84 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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The Broadway play by Jack Kirkland based on Erskine Caldwell's novel opened 4 December 1933 and set a record for longevity on Broadway when it closed on 31 May 1941 after 3,281 performances. It was revived on Broadway twice in the next two years, bring its total running time there to nearly ten years (1933-1943). Opened at the Theatre Masque and then moved to the 48th Street Theatre followed by the Forrest Theatre for the original production. The play was revived in 1942, 1943 and 1950. more
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Continuity: The morning following a torrential rain storm, dirt roads are absolutely dry. more
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Jeeter Lester: Why, Ada here never... never spoke a word to me for the first ten years we was married. Heh! Them was the happiest ten years of my life. more
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Referenced in Grindhouse (2007) more
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Bringing in the Sheaves more

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Hillbilly Hell, 4 September 2009
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Author: kenjha

After a bank purchases the land, a family of hillbillies faces eviction if it can't come up with the rent. Based on a Caldwell novel that in turn became a stage play, this is very broad comedy that rarely rises above the level of The Three Stooges. Grapewin plays a lazy farmer who has so many children that he and his wife can't keep track of them. Tracy is horribly over-the-top as one of the grown children living at home. Tierney is third billed as Tracy's useless sister but barely has a line of dialog. Rambeau does OK as a neighbor. Andrews plays the only character who has some dignity. Every once in a while Ford came up with a real clunker, and this is one of them.

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