Hal Budlong

30年代半ばの中西部の大飢饉を題材に、あからさまにニューディール政策の側に立って、アメリカ農民の詩を謳う、スタインベックの同名小説の映画化。 殺人容疑で入獄していたトムは仮釈放で4年ぶりに故郷オクラホマの農場に戻るが、小作人として働いていた一家は既に凶作の土地を逃れさったあとだった。叔父の家で家族と再会した彼は、みなで遥かカリフォルニアに行き、職を求めるのだったが……。

In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.

田舎暮らしをするお人好しクーパーのもとに、莫大な遺産が転がり込んだ！ しかしクーパーの穏やかな生活は一転、お金目当ての連中やマスコミに追いかけられる毎日が始まる……。社会風刺を小気味良くちりばめた、ヒューマン・コメディの傑作。