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The Back-breaking Leaf

Name: The Back-breaking Leaf
Director: Terence Macartney-Filgate
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1959-01-02
Duration: 29 min
Rating: 10
Cast: Stanley Jackson

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Release Date: January 2, 1959

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 0h 29m

Rating: ⭐ 10.0/10

Director: Terence Macartney-Filgate

Cast: Stanley Jackson

Storyline

Here is a graphic picture of the tobacco harvest in southwestern Ontario. At the end of July, transient field workers move in for a brief bonanza when the plant is ripe. The tobacco harvesters call it "the back-breaking leaf."