Tobacco Road

Unbearably annoying characters, terrible music, comedy that's not the slightest bit amusing. The family is basically "The Beverly Hillbillies" without money, except the Clampetts weren't despicable human beings and they occasionally managed to be a little bit funny. Ford tries to earn some sympathy for the Lesters by portraying them as salt of the earth, God-fearin' folk who are just down on their luck. No sale. An utter waste, an abomination, the worst movie I've seen in several years.

Nice looking film. I wanted to inflict physical harm on EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER though. Ford's worst.

Rural comedy so grotesque it's brilliant! Just look at the burlesque way Gene Tierney is used!

Quite possibly the most disastrous, tone deaf trainwreck of a film I've seen in a long time. The comedy is horrendously annoying, the drama is laid on thick and carelessly and they mix together about as well as water and oil. It may have a good heart but it's obscured by the fact that not a single one of the characters is sympathetic or even shows any redeeming qualities.

Enjoyable fluff is like a comedic Grapes of Wrath. The salt of the earth characters are extremely stereotypical, borderline grotesque, but this is only a problem if you find them aggravating and/or assume Ford was aiming for realism. It's another mythical reconstruction of a bygone era that is beautifully shot, and it's one of Ford's few successful comedies; not because it's terribly funny, but it's too good natured and eccentric to hate, and it's performed with real gusto and spirit.

It's good. Take my word for it. My WARD is my BOND. p.s. Georgians is crazy

John Ford does Ma and Pa Kettle. There's only so much aw-shucks and by-cracky a man can take. All these characters should be shot on sight

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Jfc Dude was fucking annoying

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More annoying than anything. End was beautiful tho.

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I can't even fathom what movie executive said, "Hey, we've just come out of the Depression, where thousands of people lost their farms -- let's make a comedy out of it." Every single bad yokel stereotype is here on display: the laziness, the shock at seeing electric lights, the marriages at 13. You might chuckle at a few of the scenarios, but they start getting old very quickly. Definitely a disappointment.

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One of my least favorite Ford films, Tobacco Road aims for something akin to Grapes of Wrath--showing the injustice of the system to the poor and downtrodden. However, the comic elements of the story are played so over the top that they clash tonally with the dramatic undercurrent of their situation. The final scenes with Jeeter and Ada are wonderful, and the film looks great, but otherwise, this is one to miss.

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