Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes is an American drama film released in 1945, which was directed by Roy Rowland, starring Edward G. Robinson and Margaret OBrien.

Told from the viewpoint of little Selma OBrien, the film explores grand childhood adventures making friends, a pet calf, Christmas, a terrifying trip down a floodswollen river, a barn fire and a ride on a circus elephants trunk. Its title comes from Chapter 2, Versein the Song of Solomon in the King James version of the Bible, which reads, Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines for our vines have tender grapes.The story is about a Norwegian immigrant farmer in Wisconsin, Martinius Jacobson Edward G. Robinson, his wife Bruna Agnes Moorehead and their sevenyearold daughter Selma Margaret OBrien, who is often bedeviled by her playmate and fiveyearold cousin, Arnold Jackie Butch Jenkins. Martinius simply wants to work his land and be a loving husband and father to his family. The one great ambition in the life of Martinius is to build a new barn, but tragedy strikes. How the family copes with that is the core and the charm of the film ........

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