"The Grapes Of Wrath", the Steinbeck classic, is on TCM @ 8:00 pm ET.

[Atticus]

Henry Fonda, Linda Darwell & John Carradine.

[Heartstrings]

1. Excellent movie, and book! Thank you! nt

[Brother Buzz]

2. I'll be there

"I'll be aroun' in the dark. I'll be everywhere-wherever you look. Wherever there is a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there is a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there...I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready. An' when our folk eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build—why, I'll be there. "

[OldHippieChick]

3. I have to wonder why there has not been

a modern remake of this film. The Henry Fonda movie, while great, is dated is so many ways and I would dearly love for this story to have a greater audience.

[demosincebirth]

4. Big business and big agri' don't want a powerfull movie like that to remind people about slave wages

and how brutally workers were treated here, under their noses.

[Brother Buzz]

7. Not just the field workers.....

Small farmers were pawns in the racket, too; banks, big business, and 'big agriculture' made and enforced the rules, something Steinbeck addressed extensively in the book.

[Brother Buzz]

6. Steven Spielberg has been toying with idea of doing a remake of The Grapes of Wrath for five years

If Spielberg does it, you can bet the bank he will depict a truer adaptation of Steinbeck's novel than John Ford was allowed to make back in 1940; the powers that be, the men behind the curtain, were even nervous with Ford's watered down adaptation.

[OldHippieChick]

9. I so hope Spielberg decides

to do a truer adaptation. It probably does not have tremendous commercial promise unless he can get the right star. I'm thinking Hanks.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. That is a great movie

if anything, for its historic perspective of California and the citrus industry during the Depression.

And watching it on TCM (which I did a few years ago) is a treat because there are no commercials.

[VOX]

8. One of John Ford's best films.

Everyone delivers on this one. Even if it wasn't allowed to be as hard-hitting as the Steinbeck novel, it's nevertheless poetic.