Our Vines Have Tender Grapes is an American motion picture released in 1945, directed by Roy Rowland and starring Edward G. Robinson and Margaret O'Brien. The movie is based on the novel by George Victor Martin, about the Norse descended residents of a small Wisconsin farming community. The screenplay was written by Dalton Trumbo, who later in life was a victim of the McCarthy era Hollywood blacklist. Its title comes from Chapter 2, Verse 15 in t...
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Our Vines Have Tender Grapes is an American motion picture released in 1945, directed by Roy Rowland and starring Edward G. Robinson and Margaret O'Brien. The movie is based on the novel by George Victor Martin, about the Norse descended residents of a small Wisconsin farming community. The screenplay was written by Dalton Trumbo, who later in life was a victim of the McCarthy era Hollywood blacklist. Its title comes from Chapter 2, Verse 15 in the Song of Solomon in the King James version of the Bible, which reads, "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes."
A story is about a Norwegian immigrant in Wisconsin, Martinius Jacobson (Edward G. Robinson), a farmer, his wife Bruna (Agnes Moorehead) and their seven-year-old daughter Selma (Margaret O'Brien) who is very close with her five-year-old cousin, Arnold (Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins). Selma lives a carefree, joyous life. Her father Martinius' one great ambition in life is to build a new...
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