What is Young Mr. Lincoln / Tobacco Road about?

YOUNG MR. LINCOLN, 1939, 20th Century Fox, 100 min. Director John Ford and actor Henry Fonda’s first collaboration produced this poignant, fascinating chronicle of Abraham Lincoln’s early life. The emphasis is on the simple joys and hardships that shaped the president-to-be’s youthful years, events that molded a shy, country lawyer into one of the most distinguished American leaders. TOBACCO ROAD, 1941, 20th Century Fox, 84 min. John Ford’s rarely screened adaptation of the Erskine Caldwell novel and subsequent Broadway play by Jack Kirkland follows the family adventures of Jeeter Lester (Charley Grapewin), a poor farmer who is about to lose his land. The bawdy, sometimes tragic nature of the novel has been toned down, but Ford manages to faithfully capture the rural milieu of life in the Southern boondocks.

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What is Young Mr. Lincoln / Tobacco Road about?: YOUNG MR. LINCOLN, 1939, 20th Century Fox, 100 min. Director John Ford and actor Henry Fonda’s first collaboration produced this poignant, fascinating chronicle of Abraham Lincoln’s early life. The emphasis is on the simple joys and hardships that shaped the president-to-be’s youthful years, events that molded a shy, country lawyer into one of the most distinguished American leaders.
TOBACCO ROAD, 1941, 20th Century Fox, 84 min. John Ford’s rarely screened adaptation of the Erskine Caldwell novel and subsequent Broadway play by Jack Kirkland follows the family adventures of Jeeter Lester (Charley Grapewin), a poor farmer who is about to lose his land. The bawdy, sometimes tragic nature of the novel has been toned down, but Ford manages to faithfully capture the rural milieu of life in the Southern boondocks.