
The Back-breaking Leaf
The Back-breaking Leaf
Watch The Back-breaking Leaf Online Free on Watchseries. 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."
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: Canada
- Director: Terence Macartney-Filgate
- Cast: Stanley Jackson,

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