John Steinbeck
42) Cannery row
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a rundown California town where the inhabitants struggle to survive and better themselves, a romance develops between a quiet marine biologist and a runaway supporting herself through prostitution.
44) Lifeboat
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When their vessel is torpedoed in the Atlantic Ocean during WWII, eight survivors find refuge in a lifeboat. Short on food and water, their situation is further complicated when they rescue a crew member from the German submarine that sank their ship.
45) Of mice and men
Publisher
Corinth Films
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., b&w., ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife.
46) East of Eden
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c1954
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900's in Northern California.
47) Lifeboat
Publisher
Kl Studio Classics
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eight people are stranded after their ship was sunk in the Atlantic by Germans. Their problems are compounded when they pick up the Nazi captain that had torpedoed their ship.
48) East of Eden
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 382 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adam and Charles Trask grow up in the shadow of their father, Cyrus. Cyrus prefers Adam, inciting jealousy in his younger son. Adam is signed up for the cavalry, while Charles works on the family farm. Reuniting years later, the brothers live in peace until a beautiful woman nearly beaten to death arrives on their front porch. Adam nurses her back to health and falls blindly in love. But Cathy hides a cruel past. Adam and Cathy marry and have twin...