Life and Death in L.A.: Roger Ebert Looks Back at Cinema Classic

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Roger Ebert Looks Back at Cinema Classic

BY ROGER EBERT
John Ford's "The Grapes of Wrath" is a left-wing parable, directed by a right-wing American director, about how a sharecropper's son, a barroom brawler, is converted into a union organizer. The message is boldly displayed, but told with characters of such sympathy and images of such beauty that audiences leave the theater feeling more pity than anger or resolve. It's a message movie, but not a recruiting poster.

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