The Grapes of Wrath (film)

The Grapes of Wrath
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Ford
Screenplay by	Nunnally Johnson
Based on	The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Produced by	Darryl F. Zanuck Nunnally Johnson
Starring	Henry Fonda Jane Darwell John Carradine Shirley Mills John Qualen Eddie Quillan
Cinematography	Gregg Toland
Edited by	Robert L. Simpson
Music by	Alfred Newman
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	January 24, 1940 (1940-01-24) (United States)
Running time	129 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$800,000[1]
Box office	$1,591,000 (rentals)[2]

The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 American drama film directed by John Ford. It was based on John Steinbeck's 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Nunnally Johnson and the executive producer was Darryl F. Zanuck.^[3]

The film tells the story of the Joads, an Oklahoma family of sharecroppers, who, after losing their farm to increased mechanization during the Great Depression in the 1930s, become migrant workers, and end up in California. The motion picture details their arduous journey across the United States as they travel to California in search of work and opportunities for the family members, and features cinematography by Gregg Toland.

The film is widely considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. In 1989, it was one of the first 25 films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".^[4][5]