I remember my friends and I renting it and watching it on VHS. After watching it, we later made beer milkshakes that the novel made famous.
It's not a great film by any stretch of the imagination, but it made me want to read the two novels it is based on, Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday. They are Steinbeck novels, which are very much of their era.
And I've always liked Steinbeck even though in some literary circles Steinbeck is seen as "too easy" for literature professors. And there's also the stink that is attached to Steinbeck because people read his works in middle school and high school, such as my son having to write a literary analysis paper this semester about Of Mice and Men.
Despite the literary snobbishness aimed at Steinbeck, he's an excellent writer, who actually could write literature that has humor in it.
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