[on "The Grapes Of Wrath"]: Several times I've watched this saga of the Joad family, victims of the Dust Bowl and Depression driven to seek a new life in sunny California, and it has never failed to move me. The film suffers if you see it simply as a social tract, and it would be unwise to rate it above other Ford films merely because of this aspect. It is Ford's ability to bring out the simple humanity, to work on us, not by argument, but through the immediacy of an emotional response that we know is connected with decency and love, which invests the material with that extra impact over and above what a merely capable director would do with it.