This film is way beyond “worth consuming.” I have too many effusive things to say about it…the dark scenes lit with matches and headlights, the solid performances through and through, and underpinning it all, the powerful lesson of thinking beyond yourself and acting as part of a bigger whole. If you haven’t seen this movie, you should. If you haven’t watched it in a while, watch it again.

Brilliant photography and editing. Great acting (Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine) and directing (John Ford). Top-notch script. Steinbeck’s political statement is not lost. Deserving of its seven 1940 Oscar nominations and two wins. The accompanying special feature, a biography of 20th Centurty Fox founder Darryl Zanuck, is exceptionally good, too.

5 count em’ Five star movie…a must see

i read the book with an appetite. it was the first book i used my now standard method of reading: no bookmarks. if i cant remember what im reading, i just read it again. and i loved the book. but. i also love henry fonda, and i waited till i got done with the book to watch the movie. i waited and waited, cause the book is pretty long. so i finally watch it. and…youre always going to be disapointed with a movie made out of a book you love. now i know that they cant fit everything in there, i was ok with that. i just thought the point of the book was lost when they switched around the last two..i dunno, sections, and gave it a happy ending. the book was sad. s-a-d. then they make this schlocky happy ending for the movie…not pleased with the ending. not at all. other than that though…fine and dandy like cotton candy.

I thought that this movie was Of Mice and Men, so I’m 40 minutes into it and thinking, “when are they going to bring out the handicapped guy?!” Anyways, I liked this better, and I learned something too about the Okee’s life in the early century. I liked David Carradine’s character and the grandpa.