Tobacco Road

In a rural place called Tobacco Road in Georgia, there lived a very poor Lester family. The head of the family, Kat Lester (Charley Grapewin), was lazy and often did anything to get something. Her wife Ida (Elizabeth) Patterson often urged him to work hard at farming but to no avail. He also had a son, Dude (William Tracy), and a daughter, Ellie Mae (Gene Tierney), who were not yet married, staying at home. One day, Kit discovered that his son-in-law Ward Bond had obtained a large bag of turnips. Without hesitation, he led his family to steal Ward Bond's turnips. Then he heard that the long-awaited Lord Tim (Dana Andrews was about to return to Tobacco Road. He was overjoyed and thought he could borrow a loan from Sir Tim so that he could buy many farming supplies. However, Ada warned him that he would be punished by God for stealing Rao's things, and there would be no good harvest this year. The uneasy Kit went to the missionary Sister Bessie Rice (Marjorie Rambeau) to read a prayer to wash away his sins, so that he would have a good harvest in the next year. However, then he never