Henry Fonda's accent
He sounded like a mid-westerner. I always imagined Tom Joad would have more of a drawl.
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That bothered me, too, the first time. Henry Fonda sounds "sorta North", while Oklahomans tend to sound "sorta South", but that could be explained in some back story about some time he spent elsewhere. Whatever. Where Fonda nails it in his rural, small town persona,--midwest, South, Far West--he's got it, and after my first viewing of the film I came to accept him.
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