

Of Mice and Men
She was made for love... and tragedy.
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
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- English
- california
- based on novel or book
- ranch
- great depression
- drifter
- migrant worker
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG24 Dec 1939
GermanyDE
- TVTV premiere11 Apr 1964
RussiaSU
- Theatrical1 Dec 1948
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- PremiereKarlovy Vary International Film Festival9 Aug 1946
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Of Mice and Men was released on 24 December 1939.
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JF1017xyz
1/30/2022
This movie version of Steinbeck's short novel, Of Mice and Men, is stellar. It stays very close to the original story, and fills out the characters in the book very nicely. Lon Chaney Jr. plays Lennie, who is simple-minded, trusting and sees the world in black and white terms. Burgess Meredith plays George, his companion and caretaker, who alternates between cruelty and tenderness in his treatment of Lennie. The two …
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CinemaSerf
6/22/2022
Aside from a few relatively minor adjustments to accommodate the censors, this is a pretty faithful screen adaptation of John Steinbeck's really wonderful book. Burgess Meredith is super as "George", who is travelling from job to job with his gentle giant pal "George" (an equally good Lon Chaney Jnr.) with both hoping to eventually raise enough of a stake to buy a small farm where they can settle down and the latter …
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