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The Back-breaking Leaf

The Back-breaking Leaf

9.5/10 1959 29m Released
Documentary

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."

Director: Terence Macartney-Filgate
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Stanley Jackson
Stanley Jackson
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