Not just great acting and directing...
but some of the greatest cinematography ever!
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I also appreciate the cinematography. Being shot in black and white added to the bleakness of the film's story. It reminds me of the opening scenes when Tom makes his way back home. The long shots of the landscape with Tom on his way created a dim atmoshphere, a foreboding of what was in store for Tom.
"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not".
The cinematographer was Gregg Toland, perhaps the most notable cinematographer in Hollywood history. He would soon serve as the cinematographer for Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, and his deep-focus photography (as seen in The Grapes of Wrath, where the lettering on distant roadside signs is visible) changed the medium forever.
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