John Ford's classic 1940 film of John Steinbeck's best-selling novel The Grapes of Wrath, is widely regarded as one of the best film adaptions of all time. Having never read the book, I can't comment on any cinematic changes that were made for the film (although I've read about a number of them), but I would venture to say to that every moment in movie is cinematic. Any given scene is filled with selective framing, mise-en-scene, impressive sound design, and great acting. Whether it's the opening shot of the film wherein Tom Joad is walking down the desolate and dusty street with birds chirping around him, or his famous "I'll be there" speech at the end of the film in which extreme close ups are used. Every scene brings you a unique sense or realism that cannot be created by any other medium individually (literature, photography, music), but is produced by the combination of all of them.
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