{"id":17235,"date":"2017-01-25T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=17235"},"modified":"2020-07-23T13:03:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T17:03:41","slug":"of-mice-and-men-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=17235","title":{"rendered":"Of Mice and Men (1939)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2017\/z012517zview_ofmiceandmen_poster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"745\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Of Mice and Men (1939)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:<strong> Lewis Milestone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Eugene Solow&nbsp;<\/strong>based on the novel by <strong>John Steinbeck<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:<strong> Lon Chaney Jr., Burgess Meredith, Betty Field,&nbsp;Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele<\/strong> and<strong> Noah Beery Jr.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>The Pitch: &#8220;Hey, let&#8217;s turn Steinbeck&#8217;s Of Mice and Men into a movie!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tagline: A mighty novel! A sensational stage success! Now! The year&#8217;s most important picture!<\/p>\n<p>The Overview:&nbsp; Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p>George (Chaney, Jr.) and Lennie (Meredith) are old buddies who travel from farm to ranch looking for work just barely getting by during the depression. George is a strong giant of a man with the brain of a child. &nbsp;Lennie constantly looks after George whose strength and lack of mental aptitude is always getting&nbsp;<del>him<\/del> them in trouble. &nbsp;&nbsp;Although they dream of one day owning their own little place, it will probably never happen.<\/p>\n<p>George and Lennie get work on a ranch owned by a mean old man and his son, Curley (Steele). &nbsp;Curley takes an instant dislike to George. &nbsp;Curley distrusts all the men on the ranch because of his attractive wife (Field), but he especially hates large men. &nbsp;Lennie warns George to stay away from both Curley and his wife. &nbsp;Unfortunately, that doesn&#8217;t mean that they will stay away from him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2017\/z012517zview_ofmiceandmen_photo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of Mice and Men (1939) Director: Lewis Milestone Screenplay: Eugene Solow&nbsp;based on the novel by John Steinbeck Stars: Lon Chaney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,52,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23912,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17235\/revisions\/23912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}