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Show Joads Loose Jolts at Paramount- That harassed. Indomitable -Okie" family, the Joads, have reached the screen In "The Grapes of Wrath," now showing at the Paramount theater. . ' Readers of Joha Steinbeck's novel of diist bowl migrants to too arete far fields of California wondered - how - far the screea would go with it. The answer Is they have gone the whole way, even to retaining the flavor, If not the broad specific Jolts of the novel's dialogue. The result Is the picture, which, like trie book,' pulls no punches. Here is a movie stating In so many words, for the first time, the cause of labor and the people. peo-ple. But, for all. these reasons, the film, like the book, wlllcause controversy.. Those who damned the book as blatant one sided propaganda will damn 4ha film likewise. The film makes no more effort than did the book to picture pic-ture the other side the problem of a state suddenly swamped with thousands of Impoverished Immigrants. Immi-grants. . . The picture, performed by s hind nicked cast that shines and yet remains less brilliant than the production as a whole, . caa be called truly epic. There Is no conventions! hokum, no love interest, no comedy relief, except that of a sardonic kind that springs from the characters themselves. Marry of the performances are memorable, especially. Jane Dar-well's Dar-well's Ma Joad, Henry Fonda's Tom, John Carradine's Casey, the preacher who "lost the sperrit," snd Charley Crapewm's Grandpa. |