Good Acting, Boring Story

Rating: 6/10 (12 October 2014)

Let me start off by saying I love old movies. I really, really do. They almost always keep my interest and i can appreciate the classics. "The Grapes of Wrath" however, is my exception. If it wasn't for the acting being fantastic, I would have given this film a failing grade. Any movie that bores me to the extent when I want to turn it off, I can't give it a good grade. It's not just the movie, it's the play too. I really just can't enjoy the story when it's about a subject as dry as the dust bowl.
The acting by Henry Fonda is fantastic. The classic scene at the end is one of the best performances in American cinema. Jane Darwell's performance was also just great. She was wonderful and completely deserved the Oscar for this movie. I wasn't really impressed with the rest of the acting in this movie however. I thought John Carradine painfully overacted in this film, and i'm normally a fan of his.