Event Details - 'The Grapes of Wrath'

As part of John Ford: 125 years, the Maine Film Center's statewide celebration of Maine native and legendary film director John Ford, Bates presents Ford's adaptation of John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Three contemporary issues — climate, migration and economic inequality — permeate this story of Okies escaping the Dust Bowl drought and economic deprivation during the Great Depression. The film netted Ford one of his four Best Director Oscars. Jonathan Cavallero, associate professor of rhetoric, film and screen studies, moderates a post-screening discussion with community leaders and Bates sociologist Marcelle Medford. (1940; 129 min.) FMI www.Ford125.com.