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Classic Films

rusty quoin

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1. I saw The Grapes of Wrath in the early eighties on the big screen at Washington University.

Reply to Staph (Original post)

Thu Jul 16, 2020, 10:48 PM

Jul 2020

I was in my early twenties, and maybe had seen it as a kid, but what affected me as an adult, was Fonda’s plain speak and the whole message, that regular people were trapped in a system which kept them down.

It’s a powerful movie.

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I saw The Grapes of Wrath in the early eighties on the big screen at Washington University. rusty quoin Jul 2020 #1