- 0:01:06 Tom at the Crossroads
- A long-shot of Tom Joad coming over the horizon and walking down an Oklahoma country highway.
- 0:01:41 Getting a ride
- Outside a roadside restaurant Tom asks a truck driver for a lift.
- 0:02:35 The nosey driver
- In the cab of the truck, Tom tells the driver that he has just been paroled from the penitentiary.
- 0:03:50 Home-i-cide
- Leaving the truck, Tom satisfies the driver's curiosity about his crime: homicide.
- 0:04:13 Casy
- Alighting from the truck, Tom finds Casy, the preacher who baptized him, singing under a willow tree. Casy explains he is no longer a preacher, and Tom tells about his four years in prison.
- 0:08:39 More conversation with Casy
- Casy describes Tom’s father’s behavior at a baptizing as Tom and Casy walk toward the old Joad cabin. A dust storm comes up.
- 0:09:52 Deserted
- From the outside, the Joad cabin looks deserted.
- 0:10:17 Home -- inside
- The inside is empty too.
- 0:12:02 Mournful Muley
- Muley Graves, a neighbor, appears and, in two subsequent flashbacks, tells about the sharecroppers being “tractored off†by the big owners. He tells Tom that the Joad family is at Uncle John’s preparing to move to California.
- 0:13:24 Who do we shoot?
- In the first flashback, Muley describes being told he must leave. His son asks "who do we shoot?" in trying to assess blame for the eviction. Muley breaks down and grasps at the dirt.
- 0:15:48 They come with the cats
- In the second flashback, Muley describes actually being "tractored off."
- 0:21:00 Trespassing at home
- Tom, Casy, and Muley are later obliged to hide out from armed watchmen who are hunting for Muley.
- 0:23:08 Breakfast at the Joads
- The family eat and talk about California. Granma and Granpa steal the show.
- 0:24:20 Tommy!
- Tom is reunited with the family and learns their plans for the trip.
- 0:27:04 The warning
- The reunion is interrupted by two men in a car who warn Uncle John that the tractors are coming through his farm the next day.
- 0:28:22 Packing up
- The Joads load the truck for the trip.
- 0:29:01 Letting Go
- Ma reminisces over her few souvenirs, burning most, keeping some, especially earrings.
- 0:32:38 The refusal
- When Granpa refuses to go on the trip, he has to be put to sleep with soothing syrup. Casy is invited to join the party, and the truck departs.
- 0:36:25 No looking back
- Outraged, Ma Joad refuses to look back at the farm.
- 0:36:55 On the road
- A montage showing the Joad truck crossing Oklahoma, while Grampa suffers inside.
- 0:37:40 Grampa dies
- Grampa is unloaded from the truck and dies.
- 0:38:32 The burial
- Tom reads a note that will be buried with Grampa, explaining that he wasn’t killed; Casy says “a few words†over the grave.
- 0:41:43 Doubts
- The campers along the way are being entertained by Rosasharn’s husband Connie, who is singing a folk song. A man returning from California laughs scornfully at the Joads’ optimism and explains that he saw his wife and two sons starve in California. The group breaks up much distressed.
- 0:46:47 Highway 66
- On the road.
- 0:47:10 The truck stop
- The gas attendant questions their ability to pay. A nasty exchange.
- 0:47:47 Buying bread
- Inside a hamburger joint, where a waitress is joshing two truck drivers, Pa Joad attempts to buy a loaf of bread. When the cook and waitress are kind to the migrants, the truck drivers leave a big tip.
- 0:52:17 Stop for inspection
- After being stopped briefly by agricultural inspectors, the Joads drive across Arizona, through Indian villages and herds of sheep.
- 0:52:37 The view
- The Joads reach the Arizona-California border and are awed by the desert and mountains.
- 0:52:52 Highway 66
- On the road again: New Mexico.
- 0:54:28 A refreshing dip
- California: the men of the Joad party cavort in the Colorado River.
- 0:55:30 Not human
- Two contemptuous filling station attendants describe the Okies as subhuman for crossing the desert in a jalopy.
- 0:57:19 What a desert
- Tom and Al talk about the difficulties of crossing the desert.
- 0:57:45 The kids' view
- Ruthie and Winfield look for bones.
- 0:58:06 The family's got to get across
- Ma comforts the dying Granma.
- 0:58:29 Connie backpedaling
- Connie complains to Rosasharn about coming on this trip instead of studying to be a radio mechanic.
- 0:59:19 Crossing another border
- California agricultural inspectors try to make the Joads unload the truck but let them go when Ma protests that Granma is deathly ill.
- 1:00:25 The Promised Land?
- The family arrives in the beautiful part of California and gazes with wonder at the Tehachapi Valley, but the experience is spoiled by Ma’s revelation that Granma had died even before the California inspectors had stopped them.
- 1:02:50 No rest for the weary
- In an unidentified town, a cop from Oklahoma is friendly for a minute, but quickly freezes up and orders the Joads out of town by nightfall.
- 1:04:19 The Hooverville
- The Joads drive into the Hooverville and see the sorry condition of the people and the huts there.
- 1:06:18 The hungry children
- Ma is besieged by hungry children when she cooks a stew for the family.
- 1:09:19 Agitator
- A contractor attempting to hire fruit pickers is challenged by Floyd, a migrant. The contractor has a deputy attempt to arrest Floyd; but Floyd knocks the deputy down and flees. When the deputy attempts to follow and shoots a woman, Tom knocks him unconscious. Casy tells Tom to hide and takes the blame for the incident. The deputies drive off with him.
- 1:13:45 Getting out
- Tom comes out of hiding and tells the family to pack up because a mob will burn up the camp; it is discovered that Rosasharn’s husband has taken off.
- 1:17:08 The mob
- A mob from the town forces the Joads to turn the truck around and go the other direction.
- 1:17:55 A new chance
- Tom and Al are fixing a tire when a man drives up and offers the family work picking peaches.
- 1:19:43 Keene Ranch
- The Joads are checked against lists before being allowed to work and are told to mind their own business.
- 1:20:40 Running the gauntlet
- Heading into Keene Ranch past distraught strikers and their families.
- 1:21:27 The shacks
- Grim housing at Keene.
- 1:22:10 Want to work?
- The family is given the opportunity to work.
- 1:23:37 We gonna live here?
- Ma starts to make a shack a home.
- 1:24:42 The procession
- The men and children join a gaunt line of pickers headed for the grove.
- 1:25:08 Dinner
- The Joads at dinner complain about the small amount of food their day’s wages bought; Tom decides to go outside and find out what the trouble is.
- 1:26:16 Turned back
- A guard tells Tom to go back to the cabin or he will be taken back.
- 1:27:06 Meeting Casy
- Tom slips under the wire fence and finds Casy with some others in a tent and learns that they are leading a strike against the ranch. Casy asks Tom to bring out those in the camp, but Tom doubts that they will come. Disturbed by noises outside, the group disperses.
- 1:30:36 Murder
- Fleeing under a bridge, Casy is spotted and killed by guards. Enraged, Tom kills a guard and escapes with a broken cheek.
- 1:31:56 Wounded
- Tom returns to the cabin, where the family tends his wound and hides him.
- 1:33:05 Tom and Ma
- Tom awakening to the problem, Ma espousing her philosophy.
- 1:37:15 Hiding
- The family packs up and hides Tom under mattresses in the truck.
- 1:39:00 Leaving Keene
- The truck is allowed to leave the fenced-in ranch.
- 1:40:00 Out of gas
- The Joad truck runs out of gas.
- 1:40:44 Wheat Patch Government Camp
- They coast into the camp, where the caretaker explains that here the migrants govern themselves.
- 1:45:00 Toilet training
- Ruthie and Winfield Joad explore the camp washhouse and think that they have broken a flush toilet.
- 1:46:20 Danger
- Tom is working with two other men laying pipe, when the small farmer who then warns that an attempt will be made to disrupt the Saturday night dance at the camp.
- 1:47:45 The Dance
- The plot is frustrated by careful work of the camp committee, and the Joad family enjoys the dance.
- 1:54:51 Escaping again
- While the camp sleeps, Tom observes two men inspecting the license of the Joads’ truck.
- 1:56:48 Clearing out
- He prepares to slip away, but Ma awakens and he tells her that he must go. Reluctantly she agrees.
- 1:57:55 Tom's farewell
- Tom explains to Ma why he's leaving.
- 2:03:57 Tom disappears
- Tom climbs away over a hill to his future.
- 2:04:20 On the road again
- The Joads cannot find work around the Wheat Patch camp, so they must set out for Fresno.
- 2:06:20 We Are the People
- In the cab of the truck, Ma meditates on what has happened and announces the theme of the film: “We’re the people that live.â€
- 2:08:04 The people move on down the highway
- The caravan.
