Product Details

• Actors: Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy
• Directors: John Ford
• Format: Import, NTSC, Full Screen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Portuguese, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Fox Calssics
• Run Time: 80 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000PCMHEU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90,682 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Sleeves in Portuguese. Note the DVD is region 1 and 4

Customer Reviews

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Movie!, November 30, 2007

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Joel (Browns Mills, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tobacco Road (DVD)

The saga of rural southerners trying to stay on the land continues unabated since industrialization. Tobacco Road is a wonderful illustration of this struggle, and has many subplots that only a mature viewer would appreciate. Jeeter Lester was a complicated person - he was willing to steal from his own family, but we admire his steely determination to save the farm. Idleness had acclimated him to leisure, and laziness now marked his days. And desperation had acclimated him to dishonesty as a way to get along. The Lesters were brutal, and they were brutalized. They were sinners and saints. If it weren't for Charley Grapewin's upbeat performance, the movie would have taken on the aura of a dark comedy at best, if not an outright tragedy. Which is exactly what the story was - a tragedy wrapped in the cloak of a comedy. It has often been said that the line between tragedy and comedy is the finest thread. I think Ford does a good job of keeping the cloak of comedy on, with occasional glimpses of the "inside" story. Then ending is perfect, for it leaves the laughing child viewer with an assumed happy ending, thinking that it all worked out and they lived happily ever after. But the mature viewer knows that the ending is sad, because the benevolence of the wealthy friend only prolongs the inevitable. I recommend this movie for both the amusement seeker and the serious thinker.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An insult it hasn't been released on dvd yet, November 24, 2008

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Quilmiense (USA/Spain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tobacco Road (DVD)

One of the top 10 movies ever made. Another magnificent piece of art by John Ford. The South never looked as poetic, realistic, as here. You will cry as much as you laugh out loud. The respect for the old folk, the love for the soil, the humbleness of common people, the care and devotion to the land, to the people who toil the land, is depicted with artistic perfection.

I couldn't even blink watching the masterful art of John Ford. I even thought how banal, ridiculous are other so-called great classics compared to this one film. Welles, Hitchcock, Cukor, Wyler... everyone shrinks to the atom level when you compare their films to this gorgeous and heartwrenching film.

And then the script so wonderful, is like listening to poetry; and the faces (oh, Lord, the faces!). How he achieved those expressions in the camera is only miraculous. And, of course, the choir songs, the gospel chants... It's the final touch, Mr. Ford's signature. I hadn't seen this movie in years. Now I think it may be the best film ever.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Original movie, June 28, 2011

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C. Evans (Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tobacco Road (1941) [Import ] (DVD)

Other than the cover and the print, this is the original movie with original sound track in English. I bought it for my Dad for Father's Day. We watched it together and laughed a lot. It was my first time seeing this movie and I thoroughly enjoyed it.