Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: LIB-4021
- Format: DVD
- UPC: 089353402129
- Street Date: 04/05/22
- PreBook Date: 03/01/22
- Label: Liberation Hall »
- Genre: Drama
- Run Time: 115 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 1968
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: WORLD
- Language: English
Product Assets
Of Mice And Men
Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depression, but luck is not in their cards.
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Two migrant workers, George and Lennie, have been let off a bus miles away from the California farm where they are due to start work. George is a small, dark man with Lennie, his companion, is his opposite, a giant of a man. Overcome with thirst, the two stop in a clearing to camp for the night. As the two converse, it becomes clear that Lennie has a mild mental disability, is deeply devoted to George and dependent upon him for protection and guidance. George finds that Lennie, loves petting soft things but often accidentally kills them, has been carrying and stroking a dead mouse. George complains loudly that his life would be easier without having to care for Lennie, but the viewer senses that their friendship and devotion is mutual. He and Lennie share a dream of buying their own piece of land, farming it, and much to Lennie's delight, keeping rabbits.
Bonus Materials
- Original commercials
Sales Points
- The first film adaptation of the book was nominated for 4 Oscars
- For fans of: John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath, Fearless, East of Eden, Cannery Row
- The book appears on the American Library Association's list of the Most Challenged Books of the 21st Century.
- Will Geer who plays Candy played Slim in the original Broadway stage play that ran from November 1937 - May 1938
- 8.1 rating on IMDB
- The book has been banned in certain schools and libraries for allegedly 'promoting euthanasia', 'condoning racial slurs', being 'anti-business'
- Virtually all IMDB comments talk about the brilliance of Nicol Williamson as Lennie and many requests for the show to be made available on DVD
- Was a recommended book by Barack Obama in 2014
Press Quotes
I saw this over thirty years ago and never forgot it. It's the best version ever made of Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men'
— Norwegianheretic , IMDB
the definitive film version of Steinbeck's book
—kenkren, IMDB
In the fifty years since it aired I cannot think of a more compelling character than Nicol Williamson's Lennie
—chrindike , IMDB
A grand little book, for all its ultimate melodrama
—Ralph Thompson , NY Times
