Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)

Directed by Roy Rowland

Our Film of the Week is set in the current time, the years of the Second World War, but it’s the place that you don’t expect: not the beachhead of Normandy, not Iwo Jima, but a small farming village in Wisconsin, called Fuller Junction. There we meet a family of emigrants from Norway, the Jacobsons, a middle-aged farmer with the quaint name Martinius (…