Propaganda

Rating: 1/10 (8 January 2006)

The Grapes of Wrath sounds clearly like a propaganda film for the liberals of the 30s and 40s (Thankfully, John Ford became more of a conservative in his late days). It often tends to be ridiculous, as, for example, with the character of John Carradine and the camps of the government managed by kind people versus the bad guys of the private companies. It is definitely an overrated movie going back to the cinema's first steps. The movie has been filmed pretty much entirely in the Fox studios : the sound of the steps of Henry Fonda in the supposed wilderness sounds like being inside a studio. Avoid it and be proud not be part of the Politically correct bunch in this noble art of the movies!