| rdfs:comment | - Tom is a former jailbird, as he was arrested for killing a man, but that was in self-defense. Both men were drunken. The sentence was to last ten years, but he was sprung in four for good behavior, so he was on parole. On the way home, he is reunited with preacher Jim Casy and a man named Muley Graves. In the meantime, his parents and his siblings are planning to move from Oklahoma to California because of their dying crops which was due to the Dust Bowl, so he decides to help them move.
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| abstract | - Tom is a former jailbird, as he was arrested for killing a man, but that was in self-defense. Both men were drunken. The sentence was to last ten years, but he was sprung in four for good behavior, so he was on parole. On the way home, he is reunited with preacher Jim Casy and a man named Muley Graves. In the meantime, his parents and his siblings are planning to move from Oklahoma to California because of their dying crops which was due to the Dust Bowl, so he decides to help them move. Tom is played by Henry Fonda in the 1940 film, and he occupies slot 12 on the "Heroes" list of AFI's 100 Years... Heroes and Villains.
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