Housed in custom blue leather-backed clamshell box.Bound in original tan cloth binding with blue spine lettering, blue topstain, fore-edge machine deckle.Original unclipped ($2.50) pictorial dust jacket in blue and black.Illustrated throughout in black and white.Illustrated by Ruth Gannett (American).

Critical response įilm critic Bosley Crowther gave the film a positive review, writing that the film 'is really a little idyll which turns its back on a workaday is filled with solid humor and compassion-and that is pleasant, even for folks who have to work.First edition of this oft-comical tale of post-World War I Monterey, following the exploits of a wine-loving and vaguely Arthurian group of paisanos, a beautiful copy in the scarce original dust jacket. The movie's happy ending is quite different from the novel's ending, in which Danny dies after a fall.Īccording to MGM records the film earned $1,865,000 at the US and Canadian box office and $746,000 elsewhere, making the studio a profit of $542,000. Danny then marries his sweetheart with the promise that he will become a fisherman now that Pilon has raised the money to buy him a boat. He almost dies in an accident while interrupting the girl at her work in a cannery, but through Pilon's prayers, is restored to health. A misunderstanding caused by Pilon about a vacuum cleaner Danny had bought for the girl, enrages Danny he becomes drunk and a bit crazy. Things are fine at first until Danny's passion for a lovely girl named Dolores causes him to actually go to work in a fishing business. One of Danny's houses burns down, so he allows his friends to move into the other house with him, and in gratitude Pilon tries to make life better for his friend. Francis, for healing his sick dog, that later is run over and killed. One of them, the Pirate, is saving money which Pilon endeavors to steal, until he discovers that it is being collected to purchase a golden candlestick which Pirate intends to burn to honor St. įrank Morgan received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his poignant portrayal of The Pirate.ĭanny inherits two houses in the central coastal area of California, 'just outside the old seaport town of Monterey.' So, Pilon and his poor idle friends move in.

Tortilla Flat is a 1942 American romantic comedy film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Frank Morgan, Akim Tamiroff, and Sheldon Leonard based on the 1935 novel of the same name by John Steinbeck.

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