Tobacco Road
1941 · 84 MIN · IMDB 6.4 · 2,648 VOTES · DIR. John Ford
Overview
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
Dialogue Timeline — 999 lines
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00:01:24 This is Tobacco Road today, but a hundred years ago...
00:05:24 That's the fourth time you've taken that same load to town...
00:07:53 Why, Ada here never spoke a word to me...
00:09:56 I don't gotta pay you for that.
00:13:11 "Sister Bessie, get up and go down to Jeeter Lester, he's at it again."
00:15:41 ...and you just feel like you...
00:18:58 Jeeter's got something to tell you.
00:21:01 Well, I guess he's about got his growth, though.
00:23:14 Tell you the truth, I'm in pretty much the same fix you are.
00:25:44 Well, what about your children, Jeeter? Haven't you got one that could help you?
00:28:37 Bessie, is you going out of your mind?
00:31:34 - Now, don't you try and stop us. - What are you fixing to do?
00:37:01 If this ain't the prettiest thing I ever seen in all my life.
00:39:37 I said, that's all the money there was in the insurance.
00:42:31 Yeah. Tom, he was even good to me.
00:47:01 You know, Jeeter, I feel just about as sorry for what Dude done...
00:49:09 Going? Sister Bessie, I'm gone.
00:53:34 Hey, wait, wait. Wait just a minute.
00:58:31 Hey, is this the poor farm?
01:01:15 Get in your car and go on down to Tobacco Road and stay there.
01:05:33 They up and run off down to the cotton mills in Augusta...
01:09:13 Ellie May, do you want to go?
01:11:57 I hate this about as much as anything in the world.
01:17:30 You keep after him, Ada. He'll do it all right if you keep after him.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed999
Dialogue density11.9 lines / min
First line00:01:24
Final line01:17:30
Production Record
DirectorJohn Ford
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes2,648