Last night I watched the 1940 movie version starring Henry Fonda as Tom Jode. I was wondering how they were going to do the ending in a 1940 film. If Clark Gable could shock audiences of the era with his "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" line, how was John Ford going to handle a teenager breast feeding an old man?
The movie was pretty good, and certainly captured the spirit of the book, even if there were quite a few changes and omissions from what John Steinbeck wrote.