Tobacco Road

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.

Release Date

20 February 1941

84 minutes

Director

Main Cast

Jeeter Lester
Sister Bessie Rice
Ellie May Lester
Dude Lester
Capt. Tim Harmon
Henry Peabody
Lov Bensey
George Payne
Grandma Lester
Chief of Police
County Clerk