Tobacco Road (film) box office, and it had grossed up to $1.9 million by 1973. 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
Tobacco Road (bar) could remain open for at least that long before the lot is developed. In 2014, the owners announced that they were planning on selling the bar to its employees, regardless of whether or not demolition is imminent, and relocating to another building nearby. The bar closed on the morning of October 26 with plans to relocate to another building in the same block as well as a themed bar on a Norwegian Cruise Line ship. In October 2015, the Norwegian Escape began service from PortMiami, with the ship including a bar named "Tobacco Road", which has been "reimagined as a