We'll show John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940) on Sunday, August 23, at 2:00 p.m. Paula Redding, a teacher at Hot Springs High School, will present the film. Henry Fonda stars at Tom Joad, a member of a poor Oklahoma family forced off their land during the Great Depression. The film won two Academy Awards-- Ford for best director, and Jane Darwell for best supporting actress as the long suffering matriarch, Ma Joad. Even though Fonda didn't win, many critics agree that he gives one of his finest performances.
The film is based on John Steinbeck's 1939 novel, which won him the Pulitzer Prize. A copy of the novel will be awarded to a lucky attendee of Sunday's presentation.
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