Horace Lynnton (Paul Fix).In particular, the rancher had his eyes on a prized but spirited black stallion named "War Winds." Lynnton""s beautiful socialite elder daughter Leslie Lynnton (Elizabeth Taylor) was atop the horse as they stopped at a crossing and admired the animal.Its provocative screenplay by Richard Brooks and James Poe was adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Tennessee Williams." The large, extended Joad family of twelve prepares to leave at daybreak, packing everything into an old, dilapidated, rickety and lurching truck for a long journey westward to the ""Promised Land"" of California:Grampa (Charley Grapewin)Granma (Zeffie Tilbury)Pa Joad (father of.In close-up, she looked down at her hands - and saw developing blisters.The contrast (of gender identification) with nearby Cora was unmistakable.The unsympathetic, manly rancher""s wife, wearing a butcher""s apron, couldn""t be bothered as she was slicing open and gutting the innards of a dead steer hanging in the living room from the ceiling.