The Grapes of Wrath

After prison, Tom Joad returns to Oklahoma and finds his family's farm repossessed. The Joads pack their remaining possessions into a truck and follow job handbills toward California, joining other displaced families traveling west during the Depression.

Loaded trucks, empty farms, roadside camps, handbills, government sanitation, and Gregg Toland's shadowed interiors give displacement material scale—Henry Fonda's quiet Tom grows politically alert through what he sees rather than speeches alone.