Cannery Row Movie Review. Cannery row is a mash up of the continuing story lines in steinbeck's comic novels cannery row and sweet thursday. Two things they are not is colorful and romantic, and when the greek chorus of winos and bums marches onscreen in cannery row, we know the movie is in trouble.
Ward (the sting, king ralph), it's meant to recreate the feeling of golden age hollywood, like a movie the film's characters might have gone to see back in the 1930s.unfortunately, it hits the ball far beyond the bleachers, landing somewhere in a cornfield. Cannery row was the setting of john steinbeck's novels cannery row (1945) and sweet thursday (1954). November 20, 2019 | full review…
The acting is superb from both the leading and support casts.
The 1982 film cannery row is an adaptation of the writings of john steinbeck. Cannery row nick nolte gives one of his finest performances in this somewhat mannered but absorbing adaptation of john steinbeck's novels cannery row and sweet thursday. Saddle up $15 and grub like there is no jenny craig! Monterey, california in the 1940's.