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Captains Courageous
(DVD) (1937) |
Of Mice and Men
(DVD) (1939) |
The Grapes of Wrath
(DVD) (1940) |
National Velvet
(DVD) (1945) |
Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas; directed by Victor Fleming, adapted from Rudyard Kipling�s story. Tracy's well-earned Academy Award performance, little Freddie's transformation from brat to young man: still watchable 70 years on. |
Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney, Jr., Betty Field, Charles Bickford; directed by Lewis Milestone, adapted from John Steinbeck�s novella. Chaney's performance as Lennie is touching, while Meredith is convincing as his guardian and fellow-dreamer. |
Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin; directed by John Ford, based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-wining novel. Fonda, as Tom Joad, leads a stellar cast in Steinbeck's story of Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl only to find the streets of California are not necessarily paved with gold. |
Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Anne Revere, Angela Lansbury; directed by Clarence Brown. Filmed in part on Pebble Beach's revered greens, this family heart-warmer made a star of 12-year-old Taylor. |
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The Red Pony
(DVD) (1949) |
Clash By Night
(DVD) (1952) |
East of Eden
(DVD) (1955) |
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
(DVD) (1986) |
Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, Peter Miles, Louis Calhern, Shepperd Strudwick; directed by Lewis Milestone, screenplay by John Steinbeck from his own short story; score by Aaron Copland. Shot on location in the Salinas Valley. Despite its child star, not necessarily one for young children. |
Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan and Marilyn Monroe; directed by Fritz Lang, based on a Clifford Odets play. Set in Monterey, with sequences filmed on Cannery Row, this film noir classic featured rising young star Monroe as a cannery worker. |
James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey, Jo Van Fleet, Burl Ives; directed by Elia Kazan, based on John Steinbeck's novel. Dean's starring debut role as Cal Trask, set in Salinas at the dawn of World War I. Two-disk special edition. |
William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Catherine Hicks, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei; directed by Leonard Nimoy. The Monterey Bay Aquarium stands in for the Cetacean Institute where our 23rd century heroes go scouting for humpback whales. |
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Turner and Hooch
(DVD) (1989) |
Bandits
(DVD) (2001) |
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Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson; directed by Roger Spottiswoode. Many location shots in Pacific Grove, Moss Landing and the Point Lobos State Reserve; many scenes stolen from a fetching Winningham and Hanks by the Dogue de Bordeaux that plays Hooch. |
Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchette; directed by Barry Levinson. Quirky comedy about nonviolent bank robbers and a romantically confused runaway housewife thrives due to its charismatic stars. Scenes shot in Salinas and many other California locations. |
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