Tobacco Road (film) Tobacco Road (film) Tobacco Road is a 1941 film directed by John Ford and starring Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy Dana Andrews and Ward Bond. It was based on the novel of the same name by Erskine Caldwell, but the plot was rewritten for the film. Studios attempting to acquire the screen rights to the novel date back to 1933. RKO Pictures and Warner Bros. considered buying the rights, the first intending to assign Charles Laughton in the lead role, but were discouraged from doing so. In March 1940, Columbia Pictures showed interest, but was informed that
A Bend in the Road six lives. The novel is written in third person and there are some chapters in which it turns to first person and Missy's killer narrates his version of what happened. A Bend in the Road A Bend in the Road is the fifth novel by the American author Nicholas Sparks, who also wrote the romance love novels "A Walk to Remember", "The Notebook", and "The Rescue". It was published in 2001. The story was inspired by Sparks's brother-in-law, Bob. Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife Missy was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As