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Is there a better television station than TCM? Don't think, I'll answer for you.......NO.-

Watched "GRAPES OF WRATH" Last night- it is August, time for SUMMER UNDER THE STARS, each day devoted to a different star. Yesterday , Henry Fonda.

There are so many incredible moments and performances in that movie, moments that even the casual movie fan are familiar with... "wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy , I'll be there..."

But as I watched the movie again last night there was a scene early on that took my breath away- Pa Joad and the two kids go into a diner and ask to buy a loaf of bread for 10 cents.

It can't possibly last much more than a minute and other than Pa and the kids all the actors are supporting players but it is played perfectly ,not one false note. It is filled with disdain and humility and misunderstanding and finally compassion and simple charity.

This scene could have gone soooooooooo wrong but it becomes a thing of simple beauty.

Get this movie- watch it again