I know him hrough and through.BackgroundThe Grapes of Wrath(1940) is director John Ford""s most famous black and white epic drama - the classic adaptation of John Steinbeck""s 1940 Pulitzer Prize-winning, widely-read 1939 novel.Smith: If you thought as much about being honest as you know about being smart.Diz: Honest? Why, we""re the only ones who can afford to be honest in what we tell the voters.We don""t have to be re-elected like politicians.Sweeney: For instance, we tell ""em when phonies and crack-pots come here to make their laws.Reporter: If it""s the truth you want, what are you doin"" in the Senate?Reporter: What do you know about laws or making laws or what the people need?Smith: I don""t pretend to know." All that she had remaining were some dwindling stocks ("railroads, oil, cotton").She also blamed her age for never returning to the stage again:I""ll have my double chins in privacy.Three of the characters would become involved in a love triangle.Befitting the film""s satirical heme of admiring or fantasizing about film idols on-screen while struggling in the real world, one might hypothesize that the Boy idolized current film star John Barrymore (who starred inSherlock Holmes (1922), wo years earlier), while the Girl resembled and aspired to be like cinema""s curly-locked sweetheart Mary Pickford, and the Sheik was an aspiring wanna-be Rudolph Valentino (who starred as the itle character inThe Sheik (1921).Since it was wartime, one of the major revenue sources for he film - Europe - was cut off, and the film only recouped about half of its budget.