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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Ford's admirers have rightly tended to play this down in favor of his later and more personal westerns, but there's much to admire here in Gregg Toland's sun-beaten photography and Henry Fonda's meticulous performance. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The Grapes of Wrath was often named the greatest American film, until it was dethroned by the re-release of Citizen Kane. Read more
Whittaker Chambers, TIME Magazine: The Grapes of Wrath is possibly the best picture ever made from a so-so book. Read more
Derek Adams, Time Out: Captures the stark plainness of the migrants, stripped to a few possessions, left with innumerable relations and little hope. Read more
Otis Ferguson, The New Republic: Movies will probably go on improving and broadening themselves; but in any event, The Grapes of Wrath is the most mature picture story that has ever been made, in feeling, in purpose, and in the use of the medium. Read more