108 The Grapes of Wrath

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2018

⏱️ 131 minutes

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This week on The Cine-Files, John and Steve explore John Ford's powerful, and still very relvant, 1940 classic, The Grapes of Wrath. Based on the pulitizer prize winning novel by John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath stars Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell and John Carradine in the story of The Joad Family's harrowing pilgrimage to California. Don’t forget to support The Cine-Files at https://www.patreon.com/TheCineFiles and purchase any film we feature at https://www.cine-files.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheCineFilesPod/?ref=bookmarks John @therochasays Steve @srmorris --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecine-files/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecine-files/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Steve. A few weeks ago, John and I sat down to discuss the 1940 John Ford
0:06.5	Classic, The Grapes of Wrath, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by John Steinbeck. Starring Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, and John Carradine,
0:14.8	the Grapes of Wrath is the story of the Jode family who are forced off their land and head to
0:19.6	California where they hope to find good jobs and a better life.
0:24.0	What they find instead is more hardship, betrayal, and an almost universal indifference.
0:30.0	I'm not going to lie to you. This is not an easy movie, but sometimes movies aren't supposed to be easy.
0:35.6	Film has a unique power to help us see the world through the eyes of people who are very different from us, and I don't think you can go on this journey with the Jode family without ending up a little
0:46.0	more compassionate and maybe a little more aware of the terrible struggles this world often
0:51.6	inflicts on our fellow human beings.
0:54.0	So if you haven't seen the Grapes of Wrath, you can buy or stream it through our webpage,
0:58.0	Cinophiles.net, then tune in on Friday to hear our discussion of it.
1:02.0	I think you'll find as we did that this story about
1:05.2	playing folks struggling against adversity is just as relevant today as it was almost 80 years
1:10.8	ago. So that's John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath this Friday on the
1:16.4	cinnophiles. Hello and welcome once again to the cinnophiles where each week
1:20.0	we enter the world or I should do a level. Let me get a level from you.
1:23.2	Yeah, I hate you for making me watch this.
1:25.5	I'm so fucking depressed.
1:27.4	Okay, good, good.
1:28.5	Yeah, I'm good too.
1:29.4	All right. Hello and welcome once again to the cinnophiles where each week we enter the world of a great film.
1:41.0	We explore its themes, its history, the filmmaking,
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