Arguably the director John Ford's greatest film, and the rare Hollywood film superior to its literary source.

Rating: 10/10 (13 June 2010)

The Grapes Of Wrath is a genuinely great motion picture which makes one proud to have even a small share in the affairs of cinema. After the dust-bowl disaster of the thirties, Oklahoma farmers trek to California in the hope of a better life.
It's a superb film which could scarcely be improved upon. Though the ending is softened from the book, there was too much here for filmgoers to chew on. Acting, photography, direction combine to make this an unforgettable experience, a poem of a film. In 1989, the film was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."