The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the US Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two Americans searching for work in Mexico, convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.

A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who is actually a reporter in need of a story.

A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.

A marshall, personally compelled to face a returning deadly enemy, finds that his own town refuses to help him.

When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single-handedly and straight through enemy lines.

An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends.

A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.

An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.