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Directed by James Franco, this film adaptation of John Steinbeck’s 1936 novel, In Dubious Battle, follows the lives of California fruit pickers who go on strike. The film stars Franco, Robert Duvall, Vincent D’Onofrio, Selena Gomez, and Nat Wolff.
"And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in all the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected." The author of twenty-seven books, including The Grapes of Wrath (1939), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize; East of Eden (1952); and the novella Of Mice and Men (1937) is seen here giving his acceptance speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm on December 10, 1962.
