Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: The Grapes of Wrath, and Oliver Twist.

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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies The Grapes of Wrath from 1940, and Oliver Twist from 1948.
The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 American 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.
The film tells the story of the Joads, an Oklahoma family of sharecroppers, who, after losing their farm to increased mechanization 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, and features cinematography by Gregg Toland.
The film is widely considered to be one of the greatest films of all time.
In 1989, it was one of the first 25 films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Directed by: John Ford.
Screenplay by: Nunnally Johnson.
Based on: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
Produced by: Darryl F. Zanuck, and Nunnally Johnson.
Starring: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Shirley Mills, John Qualen, and Eddie Quillan.
Cinematography: Gregg Toland.
Edited by: Robert L. Simpson.
Music by: Alfred Newman.
Distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Release date: 24 January 1940 (United States)
File Length: 123 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $800,000.
Box office: $1,591,000 (rentals).
Oliver Twist is a 1948 British film and the second of David Lean's two film adaptations of Charles Dickens novels. Following his 1946 version of Great Expectations, Lean re-assembled much of the same team for his adaptation of Dickens' 1838 novel, including producers Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan, cinematographer Guy Green, designer John Bryan and editor Jack Harris.
Lean's then-wife, Kay Walsh, who had collaborated on the screenplay for Great Expectations, played the role of Nancy.
John Howard Davies was cast as Oliver, while Alec Guinness portrayed Fagin and Robert Newton played Bill Sykes (Bill Sikes in the novel).
In 1999, the British Film Institute placed it at 46th in its list of the top 100 British films.
In 2005 it was named in the BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14.
Directed by: David Lean.
Written by: David Lean, and Stanley Haynes.
Based on: Oliver Twist 1837 novel by Charles Dickens.
Produced by: Ronald Neame, and Anthony Havelock-Allan.
Starring: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Kay Walsh, John Howard Davies, Anthony Newley, and Diana Dors.
Cinematography: Guy Green.
Edited by: Jack Harris.
Music by: Arnold Bax.
Production Company: Cineguild.
Distributed by: General Film Distributors.
Release date: 22 June 1948 (London).
File Length: 110 minutes.
Country: United Kingdom.
Language: English.
Budget: £371,500.
Box office: £380,400.
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