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For the 1990 Broadway play, see The Grapes of Wrath (play).
The Grapes of Wrath
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
John Ford
Produced by
Darryl F. Zanuck
Nunnally Johnson
Screenplay by
Nunnally Johnson
Based on
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
Starring
Henry Fonda
Jane Darwell
John Carradine
Shirley Mills
John Qualen
Eddie Quillan
Music by
Alfred Newman
Cinematography
Gregg Toland
Edited by
Robert L. Simpson
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release date
January 24, 1940 (1940-01-24) (United States)
Running time
129 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$800,000[1]
Box office
$2.5 million (rentals)[2]
The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 drama film directed by John Ford. It was based on John Steinbeck's 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Nunnally Johnson and the executive producer was Darryl F. Zanuck.[3]
The film tells the story of the Joads, an Oklahoma family, who, after losing their farm during the Great Depression in the 1930s, become migrant workers and end up in California. The motion picture details their arduous journey across the United States as they travel to California in search of work and opportunities for the family members.
The film is widely considered as one of the greatest American films of all time. In 1989, this film was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Novel
4 Differences from the novel
5 Soundtrack
6 Production
7 Reception
7.1 Critical response
7.2 Awards
8 Video and DVD
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
Plot[edit]
The film opens with Tom Joad (Henry Fonda), released from prison and hitchhiking his way back to his parents' family farm in Oklahoma. Tom finds an itinerant ex-preacher named Jim Casy (John Carradine) sitting under a tree by the side of the road. Casy was the preacher who baptized Tom, but now Casy has "lost the spirit" and his faith. Casy goes with Tom to the Joad property only to find it deserted. There, they meet Muley Graves (John Qualen) who is hiding out. In a flashback, he describes how farmers all over the area were forced from their farms by the deed holders of the land. A local boy (Irving Bacon), hired for the purpose, is shown knocking down Muley's house with a Caterpillar tractor. The large Joad family of twelve leaves at daybreak, along with Casy, who decides to accompany them. They pack everything into a dilapidated 1926 Hudson "Super Six" sedan adapted to serve as a truck in order to make the long journey to the promised land of California.
The trip along Highway 66 is arduous, and it soon takes a toll on the Joad family. The elderly Grandpa (Charley Grapewin) dies along the way. Tom writes the circumstances surrounding the death on a page from the family Bible and places it on the body before they bury it so that if his remains were found, his death would not be investigated as a possible homicide. They park in a camp and meet a man, a migrant returning from California, who laughs at Pa's optimism about conditions in California. He speaks bitterly about his experiences in the West.
The family arrives at the first transient migrant campground for workers and finds the camp is crowded with other starving, jobless and desperate travelers. Their truck slowly makes its way through the dirt road between the shanty houses and around the camp's hungry-faced inhabitants. Tom says, "Sure don't look none too prosperous."
After some trouble with a so-called "agitator", the Joads leave the camp in a hurry. The Joads make their way to another migrant camp, the Keene Ranch. After doing some work in the fields, they discover the high food prices in the company store for meat and other products. The store is the only one in the area, by a long shot. Later they find a group of migrant workers are striking, and Tom wants to find out all about it. He goes to a secret meeting in the dark woods. When the meeting is discovered, Casy is killed by one of the camp guards. As Tom tries to defend Casy from the attack, he inadvertently kills the guard.
Tom suffers a serious wound on his cheek, and the camp guards realize it will not be difficult to identify him. That evening the family hides Tom under the mattresses of the truck just as guards arrive to question them; they are searching for the man who killed the guard. Tom avoids being spotted and the family leaves the Keene Ranch without further incident. After driving for a while, they have to stop at the top of a hill when the engine overheats due to a broken fan belt; they have little gas, but decide to try coasting down the hill to some lights. The lights are from a third type of camp: Farmworkers' Wheat Patch Camp (Weedpatch in the book), a clean camp run by the Department of Agriculture, complete with indoor toilets and showers, which the Joad children had never seen before.
Tom is moved to work for change by what he has witnessed in the various camps. He tells his family that he plans to carry on Casy's mission in the world by fighting for social reform. He leaves to seek a new world and to join the movement committed to social justice.
Tom Joad says:
I'll be all around in the dark. I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look, wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build, I'll be there, too.
As the family moves on again, they discuss the fear and difficulties they have had. Ma Joad concludes the film, saying:
I ain't never gonna be scared no more. I was, though. For a while it looked as though we was beat. Good and beat. Looked like we didn't have nobody in the whole wide world but enemies. Like nobody was friendly no more. Made me feel kinda bad and scared too, like we was lost and nobody cared.... Rich fellas come up and they die, and their kids ain't no good and they die out, but we keep a-coming. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out, they can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, cos we're the people.
Cast[edit]
Henry Fonda as Tom Joad
Henry Fonda as Tom Joad
Jane Darwell as Ma Joad
John Carradine as Jim Casy
Charley Grapewin as William James "Grandpa" Joad
Dorris Bowdon as Rosasharn
Russell Simpson as Pa Joad
O. Z. Whitehead as Al Joad
John Qualen as Muley Graves
Eddie Quillan as Connie Rivers
Zeffie Tilbury as Grandma Joad
Frank Sully as Noah Joad
Frank Darien as Uncle John
Darryl Hickman as Winfield Joad
Shirley Mills as Ruth "Ruthie" Joad
Roger Imhof as Thomas
Grant Mitchell as Caretaker
Charles D. Brown as Wilkie
John Arledge as Davis
Ward Bond as Policeman
Harry Tyler as Bert
William Pawley as Bill
Charles Tannen as Joe
Selmer Jackson as Inspection Officer
Charles Middleton as Leader
Eddie Waller as Proprietor
Paul Guilfoyle as Floyd
David Hughes as Frank
Cliff Clark as City Man
Joseph Sawyer as Bookkeeper
Frank Faylen as Tim
Adrian Morris as Agent
Hollis Jewell as Muley's Son
Robert Homans as Spencer
Irving Bacon as Driver
Kitty McHugh as Mae
Tom Tyler as Deputy (uncredited)
Joe Bordeaux as Migrant (uncredited)
Novel[edit]
According to The New York Times, The Grapes of Wrath was the best-selling book of 1939 and 430,000 copies had been printed by February 1940.[4] In that month it won the National Book Award, favorite fiction book of 1939, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association.[4] Soon it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[5]
In 1962, the Nobel Prize committee cited The Grapes of Wrath as a "great work" and as one of the committee's main reasons for granting Steinbeck the Nobel Prize for Literature.[6] Time magazine included the novel in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005".[7] In 2009, The Daily Telegraph also included the novel in its "100 novels everyone should read".[8] In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Grapes of Wrath tenth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
Differences from the novel[edit]
The first part of the film follows the book fairly closely. However, the second half and the ending in particular are significantly different from the book. While the book ends with the downfall and break-up of the Joad family, the film switches the order of sequences so that the family ends up in a "good" camp provided by the government, and events turn out relatively well.[9]
The novel's original ending was considered far too controversial to be included in the film.[citation needed] In the novel, Rose-of-Sharon ("Rosasharn") Rivers (played in the film by Dorris Bowdon) gives birth to a stillborn baby. Later she offers her milk-filled breasts to a starving man, dying in a barn. These scenes were not included in the film.
While the film is somewhat stark, it has a more optimistic and hopeful view than the novel, especially when the Joads land at the Department of Agriculture camp – the clean camp.[citation needed] Also, the producers decided to tone down Steinbeck's political references, such as eliminating a monologue using a land owner's description of "reds" as anybody "that wants thirty cents an hour when we're payin' twenty-five," to show that under the prevalent conditions that definition applies to every migrant worker looking for better wages.
The film emphasizes Ma Joad's pragmatic, forward-looking way of dealing with their situation despite Tom's departure, as it concludes with her spiritual "We're the people" speech.[citation needed][10]
Ivy and Sairy Wilson, who attend to Grandpa's death and travel with the Joads until they reach California, are left out of the movie. Noah's departure from the family is passed over in the movie. Instead, he simply disappears without explanation. In the book, Floyd tells Tom about how the workers were being exploited, but in the movie he does not appear until after the deputy arrives in Hooverville. Sandry, the religious fanatic who scares Rose of Sharon, is left out of the movie.
Vivian Sobchack argued that the film uses visual imagery to focus on the Joads as a family unit, whereas the novel focuses on their journey as a part of the "family of man". She points out that their farm is never shown in detail, and that the family members are never shown working in agriculture; not a single peach is shown in the entire film. This subtly serves to focus the film on the specific family, as opposed to the novel's focus on man and land together.[11]
In the film, most family members are either reduced, such as Al, Noah and Uncle John, to background characters or, like Rose of Sharon and Connie, to being the focus of only one or two relatively minor scenes. Instead, the film is largely concerned with Tom, Ma and, to a lesser extent, Jim Casy. Thus, despite the film's focus on the Joads as a specific family rather than a part of the "family of man", the movie explores very little of the members of the family itself.
Soundtrack[edit]
Henry Fonda – "Red River Valley"
Eddie Quillan – "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad" (Traditional)
"A Tisket, A Tasket" (Words & music by Ella Fitzgerald & Van Alexander)
Production[edit]
According to critic Roger Ebert, both executive producer Darryl F. Zanuck and director John Ford were odd choices to make this film because both were considered politically conservative.[12] Zanuck was nervous about the left-wing political views of the novel, especially the ending. Due to the red-baiting common to the era, Darryl Zanuck sent private investigators to Oklahoma to help him legitimize the film.
When Zanuck's investigators found that the "Okies'" predicament was indeed terrible, Zanuck was confident he could defend political attacks that the film was somehow pro-Communist.[13] Ebert believes that World War II also helped sell the film's message, as Communism received a brief respite from American demonizing during that period.[12]
Production on the film began on October 4, 1939, and was completed on November 16, 1939. Some of the filming locations include: McAlester, Sayre both in Oklahoma; Gallup, Laguna Pueblo, and Santa Rosa, all in New Mexico; Lamont, Needles, San Fernando Valley, all in California; Topock, Petrified Forest National Park, all in Arizona.[14]
The film score by Alfred Newman is based on the song "Red River Valley". Additionally, the song "Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad" is sung in a nighttime scene at a labor camp.
The film premiered in New York City on January 24, 1940, and Los Angeles on January 27, 1940. The wide release date in the United States was March 15, 1940.
Originally allowed to be shown in the Soviet Union in 1948 because of its depiction of the plight of people under capitalism, it was subsequently withdrawn because audiences were noticing that, as shown in the film, even the poorest Americans could afford a car.[15]
Reception[edit]
Critical response[edit]
Frank Nugent of The New York Times wrote:
In the vast library where the celluloid literature of the screen is stored there is one small, uncrowded shelf devoted to the cinema's masterworks, to those films which by dignity of theme and excellence of treatment seem to be of enduring artistry, seem destined to be recalled not merely at the end of their particular year but whenever great motion pictures are mentioned. To that shelf of screen classics Twentieth Century-Fox yesterday added its version of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, adapted by Nunnally Johnson, directed by John Ford and performed at the Rivoli by a cast of such uniform excellence and suitability that we should be doing its other members an injustice by saying it was "headed" by Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine and Russell Simpson.[16]
When critic Bosley Crowther retired in 1967, he named The Grapes of Wrath one of the best fifty films ever made. (N.B.: 40 percent of the works Crowther named were not American-made, so he was placing this work in a large context.)[17]
In a film review written for Time magazine by its editor Whittaker Chambers, he separated his views of Steinbeck's novel from Ford's film, which he liked.
Chambers wrote:
But people who go to pictures for the sake of seeing pictures will see a great one. For The Grapes of Wrath is possibly the best picture ever made from a so-so book...Camera craft purged the picture of the editorial rash that blotched the Steinbeck book. Cleared of excrescences, the residue is a great human story which made thousands of people, who damned the novel's phony conclusions, read it. It is the saga of an authentic U.S. farming family who lose their land. They wander, they suffer, but they endure. They are never quite defeated, and their survival is itself a triumph.[18]
A review in Variety reported, "Here is outstanding entertainment, projected against a heart-rending sector of the American scene," concluding, "It possesses an adult viewpoint and its success may lead other producers to explore the rich field of contemporary life which films long have neglected and ignored."[19] John Mosher wrote in The New Yorker, "With a majesty never before so constantly sustained on any screen, the film never for an instant falters. Its beauty is of the sort found in the art of Burchfield, Benton and Curry, as the landscape and people involved belong to the world of these painters."[20]
The Film Daily year-end poll of 546 critics nationwide ranked The Grapes of Wrath as the second-best film of 1940, behind only Rebecca.[21]
Awards[edit]
Academy Awards wins (1941)[22]
Best Supporting Actress, Jane Darwell as Ma Joad.
Best Director, John Ford.
Academy Awards nominations (1941)
Best Actor in a Leading Role, Henry Fonda as Tom Joad.
Best Film Editing, Robert L. Simpson.
Best Picture, Darryl F. Zanuck and Nunnally Johnson.
Best Sound Recording, Edmund H. Hansen.
Best Writing Adapted Screenplay, Nunnally Johnson.
Other wins
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures: NBR Award; Best Picture- 1940.
New York Film Critics: NYFCC Award; Best Director, John Ford; Best Film- 1940.
Blue Ribbon Awards, Japan: Blue Ribbon Award Best Foreign Language Film, John Ford- 1963.
National Film Registry – 1989.
American Film Institute recognition
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies – #21
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains:
Tom Joad – #12 Hero
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes:
"Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there." – Nominated
100 Years...100 Cheers – #7
100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary) – #23
Video and DVD[edit]
Play media
The film's trailer
A video of the film was released in 1988 by Key Video (then a division of CBS/Fox).
Later it was released in video format on March 3, 1998 by 20th Century Fox on its Studio Classic series.
A DVD was released on April 6, 2004 by 20th Century Fox Entertainment. The DVD contains a special commentary track by scholars Joseph McBride and Susan Shillinglaw. It also includes various supplements: an A&E Network biography of Daryl F. Zanuck, outtakes, a gallery, Franklin D. Roosevelt lauds motion pictures at Academy featurette, Movietone news: three drought reports from 1934, etc.
See also[edit]
List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a film review aggregator website
References[edit]
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Jump up ^ The Grapes of Wrath on IMDb.
^ Jump up to: a b "1939 Book Awards Given by Critics: Elgin Groseclose's 'Ararat' is Picked as Work Which Failed to Get Due Recognition", The New York Times, February 14, 1940, page 25. ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851–2007).
Jump up ^ "Novel" (Winners 1917–1947). The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved January 28, 2012.
Jump up ^ Osterling, Anders. "Nobel Prize in Literature 1962 – Presentation Speech". Retrieved February 18, 2007.
Jump up ^ "All Time 100 Novels". Time. October 16, 2005. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ "100 novels everyone should read". The Daily Telegraph. January 16, 2009. Retrieved June 5, 2012.
Jump up ^ "The Grapes of Wrath". Movie. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
Jump up ^ Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath, 1939. Penguin Classics; Reissue edition October 1, 1992.
Jump up ^ Sobchack, Vivian C. (1979). "The Grapes of Wrath (1940): Thematic Emphasis Through Visual Style". American Quarterly. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 31 (5): 596–615. doi:10.2307/2712428. JSTOR 2712428.
^ Jump up to: a b Ebert, Roger. Chicago Sun-Times, film review, March 21, 2002. Last accessed: January 14, 2007.
Jump up ^ Levy, Emanuel. "Film Review". Archived from the original on 11 December 2008.
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Jump up ^ Whitfield, Stephen J. (2009). "Projecting Politics: The Grapes of Wrath". Revue LISA/LISA e-journal. VII (1): 121–147.
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Jump up ^ Crowther, Bosley. "The 50 Best Films of All Time" at the Wayback Machine (archived November 2, 2007). The New York Times, archived at Northern Essex Community College.
Jump up ^ Chambers, Whittaker (February 12, 1940). "Cinema: The New Pictures". Time. Retrieved July 31, 2010.
Jump up ^ "Grapes of Wrath". Variety. New York: Variety, Inc. January 31, 1940. p. 14.
Jump up ^ Mosher, John (February 3, 1940). "The Current Cinema". The New Yorker. New York: F-R Publishing Corp. p. 61.
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Jump up ^ "The 13th Academy Awards (1941) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
External links[edit]
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Sampoorna Ramayanam (1958 film)
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Sampoorna Ramayanam
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Directed by
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Produced by
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Screenplay by
A. P. Nagarajan
Based on
Ramayana
by Valmiki
Starring
N. T. Rama Rao
Sivaji Ganesan
Padmini
T. K. Bhagavathi
P. V. Narasimha Bharathi
Chittor V. Nagaiah
S. V. Ranga Rao
G. Varalakshmi
Music by
K. V. Mahadevan
Cinematography
V. K. Gopanna
Edited by
T. Vijayarangam
Production
company
M. A. V. Pictures
Distributed by
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Release date
14 April 1958 (1958-04-14)
Running time
204 mins
Country
India
Language
Tamil
Sampoorna Ramayanam (lit. The Complete Ramayana) is a 1958 Tamil-language Indian historical drama film directed by K. Somu. It is based on Valmiki's Ramayana. The film features N. T. Rama Rao and Sivaji Ganesan in lead roles. The film, produced by M. A. Venu, had musical score by K. V. Mahadevan and was released on 14 April 1958. It became a major commercial success, and ran for over 264 days in theatres, thereby becoming a silver jubilee film.
Contents
1 Story
2 Cast
3 Crew
4 Production
5 Soundtrack
6 Reception
7 References
8 Bibliography
9 External links
Story[edit]
The story is the complete Ramayana from the birth of Rama to his Pattabhisheka after completing his exile.
Cast[edit]
N. T. Rama Rao as Rama
Sivaji Ganesan as Bharatha
Padmini as Sita[1]
P. V. Narasimha Bharathi as Lakshmana
T. K. Bhagavathi as Ravana[2]
Chittor V. Nagaiah as Dasaratha[2]
Pushpavalli as Kausalya
G. Varalakshmi as Kaikeyi[2]
S. D. Subbulakshmi as Sumithra
V. K. Ramasamy as Guhan
M. N. Rajam as Surpanakha
Sandhya as Mandodari
Crew[edit]
Producer: M. A. Venu
Banner: M. A. V. Pictures
Director: K. Somu
Music: K. V. Mahadevan
Lyrics: A. Maruthakasi
Based on: Valmiki's Ramayana
Screenplay: A. P. Nagarajan
Dialogue: A. P. Nagarajan
Cinematography: V. K. Gopanna
Editing: T. Vijayarangam
Art: Ch. E. Prasad Rao, M. K. Kutty Appu
Choreography: M. Sampath Kumar, Chinnilal
Songs Recording: T. S. Rangasamy
Audiography: C. V. Ramaswamy Iyer
Production[edit]
Sampoorna Ramayanam is based on the Ramayana, an Indian epic written by Valmiki.[3] It was directed by K. Somu and produced by M. A. Venu under M. A. V. Pictures, while Kannadasan wrote the screenplay. Cinematography was handled by V. K. Gopanna, and the editing by T. Vijayarangam.[4][5]
S. S. Rajendran declined the offer to play Bharata before Sivaji Ganesan was cast in that role,[6] stating that he would not act in films based on mythology.[7] This marked Ganesan's first mythological film.[8] K. V. Srinivasan dubbed the voice of N. T. Rama Rao,[2] who played Rama.[9]
Soundtrack[edit]
The music composed by K. V. Mahadevan.[10][11] Playback singers are C. S. Jayaraman, T. M. Soundararajan, Ghantasala, Seerkazhi Govindarajan, Thiruchi Loganathan, S. C. Krishnan, M. S. Rajeswari, A. P. Komala, A. G. Rathnamala, K. Rani, Sarojini. Udutha & Pathma. All lyrics were penned by A. Maruthakasi. Unlike most Tamil films of that era, the songs were composed to form a part of the narrative, as opposed to being standalone segments.[12]
No. Song Singers Length (m:ss)
1 Annaiyum Pithavumaagi .. Yen Pirintheer T. M. Soundararajan, Thangappan 02:31
2 Indru Poi Naalai Vaaraai C. S. Jayaraman 02:52
3 Neethi Thavarathu Seerkazhi Govindarajan 01:03
4 Pathugaiye Thunaiyaagum T. M. Soundararajan & Seerkazhi Govindarajan 02:49
5 Sabarikku Raamanum Seerkazhi Govindarajan 06:08
6 Sangeetha Sowbagyame C. S. Jayaraman 04:24
7 Sree Raamachandhran Magudaabishega Seerkazhi Govindarajan & S. C. Krishnan 00:45
8 Ellorum Kondaadum Raamaraajyame A. P. Komala, A. G. Rathnamala, K. Rani,
Sarojini & Udutha 00:49
9 Thennaadudaiya Sivane.... Kannpaarum Enaiyaalum C. S. Jayaraman 02:31
10 Paakraan Sumaa Paakraan M. S. Rajeswari 01:02
11 Thavamuni Viswamithiran.... Panjanai Meedhu C. S. Jayaraman 06:00
12 Veenai Kodiyudaiya Thiruchi Loganathan 01:45
13 Mannellaam Ponnaagum Raaman Varavaaley A. P. Komala, A. G. Rathnamala, S. C. Krishnan
K. Rani, Sarojini & Pathma 01:45
14 Vaazhiya Ulagam.... Makkal Pirandhadhai Enni Enniye T. M. Soundararajan 04:28
15 Araneri Marandha Thamayanai Seerkazhi Govindarajan 01:40
16 Pogadhe Atthaan Pogadhe M. S. Rajeswari 01:02
17 Azhagiya Ilangaa Nagarai Seerkazhi Govindarajan 01:02
18 Utthaman Pogindraane.... Utthaman Raaman Pogindraan Ghantasala 02:30
19 Atthiri Munivar Raaman Latchmananai Seerkazhi Govindarajan 02:37
Reception[edit]
Sampoorna Ramayanam was released on 14 April 1958, during Puthandu.[13][14] Politician C. Rajagopalachari, who wrote the Ramayana as a serialised story in Kalki which was later published as a book, watched this film and appreciated it, particularly Ganesan's performance as Bharata. Usually he was a critic of cinema in general and did not think much about films.[2][15] In a review dated 27 April 1958, the magazine Ananda Vikatan lauded Ganesan's performance, felt T. K. Bhagavathi was perfect for the role of Ravana, and called the film a must-watch.[16]
Writing in 2012, film historian Randor Guy said in his review article that the film is "Remembered for the impressive performances of N. T. Rama Rao, Padmini and Varalakshmi, the melodious music of Mahadevan and the song ‘Indru Poi.’"[2] In 2018, Arunkumar Sekhar of The New Indian Express praised the film's faithfulness to the source material.[17] The film was a major commercial success and ran for over 264 days in theatres,[18] thereby becoming a silver jubilee film,[19] and also being responsible for a renewed interest in mythological films in Tamil cinema.[20]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "The very best of Padmini". Rediff.com. 26 September 2006. slide 7. Archived from the original on 14 August 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Guy, Randor (30 June 2012). "Sampoorna Ramayanam 1956". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 23 November 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
Jump up ^ "The Best Mythological Films of Tamil Cinema". Rediff. 22 May 2014. Archived from the original on 19 January 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
Jump up ^ Film News Anandan (2004). Sadhanaigal Padaitha Thamizh Thiraipada Varalaru [Tamil film history and its achievements] (in Tamil). Chennai: Sivagami Publishers. Archived from the original on 4 October 2018.
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Baskaran, S. Theodore (1996). The eye of the serpent: an introduction to Tamil cinema. East West Books.
Ganesan, Sivaji; Narayana Swamy, T. S. (2007) [2002]. Autobiography of an Actor: Sivaji Ganesan, October 1928 – July 2001. Sivaji Prabhu Charities Trust.
External links[edit]
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Works of A. P. Nagarajan
As director
Vadivukku Valai Kappu (1962)
Kulamagal Radhai (1963)
Navarathri (1964)
Thiruvilaiyadal (1965)
Saraswati Sabatham (1966)
Thiruvarutchelvar (1967)
Seetha (1967)
Kandhan Karunai (1967)
Thirumal Perumai (1968)
Thillana Mohanambal (1968)
Vaa Raja Vaa (1969)
Gurudhatchanai (1969)
Vilaiyaattu Pillai (1970)
Thirumalai Thenkumari (1970)
Kankatchi (1971)
Thirupathi Kanyakumari Yatra (1972)
Agathiyar (1972)
Thirumalai Deivam (1973)
Rajaraja Cholan (1973)
Karaikkal Ammaiyar (1973)
Gumasthavin Magal (1974)
Melnaattu Marumagal (1975)
Jai Balaji (1976)
Sri Krishna Leela (1977)
Navarathinam (1977)
As screenwriter only
Naalvar (1953)
Mangalyam (1954)
Pennarasi (1955)
Nalla Thangai (1955)
Town Bus (1955)
Naan Petra Selvam (1956)
Makkalai Petra Magarasi (1957)
Nalla Idathu Sambandham (1958)
Petra Maganai Vitra Annai (1958)
Sampoorna Ramayanam (1958)
Neelavukku Neranja Manasu (1958)
Thayapola Pillai Noolapola Selai (1959)
Alli Petra Pillai (1959)
Paavai Vilakku (1960)
Balaraju Katha (1970)
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Films based on the Ramayana
1910s
Lanka Dahan (1917)
1930s
Rama Paduka Pattabhishekam (1932)
Sita Kalyanam (1934)
Sathi Ahalya (1937)
1940s
Ram Rajya (1943)
Seeta Rama Jananam (1944)
Paduka Pattabhishekam (1945)
Ramayani (1945)
Rambaan (1948)
1950s
Ram Janma (1951)
Ramayan (1954)
Sampoorna Ramayanam (1958)
1960s
Sampoorna Ramayana (1961)
Seetharama Kalyanam (1961)
Lava Kusa (1963)
Veeranjaneya (1968)
1970s
Sampoorna Ramayanam (1971)
Hanuman Vijay (1974)
Mutyala Muggu (1975)
Sri Ramanjaneya Yuddham (1975)
Bajrangbali (1976)
Dasavatharam (1976)
Sita Kalyanam (1976)
Kanchana Sita (1977)
Seetha Rama Vanavasam (1977)
Sri Rama Pattabhishekam (1978)
1980s
Raavan (1984)
1990s
Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama (1992)
Ramayanam (1996)
Lav Kush (1997)
2000s
Hanuman (2005)
Sita Sings the Blues (2008)
2011s
Lava Kusa: The Warrior Twins (2010)
Raavan (2010)
Raavanan (2010)
Ramayana: The Epic (2011)
Sri Rama Rajyam (2011)
Yak: The Giant King (2012)
Shri Hanuman Chalisa (2013)
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