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27 May 1957 (USA) moreTagline:
The Steinbeck people! The Steinbeck passions! The Steinbeck power!Plot:
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Stereotypes aboard a wayward bus ride... moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Joan Collins | ... | Alice Chicoy |
 | Jayne Mansfield | ... | Camille Oakes |
 | Dan Dailey | ... | Ernest Horton |
| Rick Jason | ... | Johnny Chicoy |
| Betty Lou Keim | ... | Norma , the counter girl |
 | Dolores Michaels | ... | Mildred Pritchard |
| Larry Keating | ... | Elliott Pritchard |
 | Robert Bray | ... | Morse |
| Kathryn Givney | ... | Mrs. Elliott (Bernice) Pritchard |
| Dee Pollack | ... | Ed 'Pimples' Carson |
 | Will Wright | ... | Van Brunt |
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You hear so little about this film although it was taken from a well received John Steinbeck novel which I understand had to be cleaned up for the screen version. Of course in today's world there's nothing particularly shocking about any of the unruly passengers as they get detoured on a rundown bus making a short trip through California.
RICK JASON is the ruggedly handsome driver (whatever happened to him?), JOAN COLLINS is his unhappy wife tipping the bottle, JAYNE MANSFIELD is a showgirl riding to her next strip assignment, DAN DAILEY is a stock character as a traveling salesman with an eye for a pretty girl, and others are strictly cardboard creations.
But it's strikingly photographed in B&W and CinemaScope, briskly directed by Victor Vikas (who won a directing award for this at the Berlin Film Festival), and not as bad as it might seem for all of its obscurity in the realm of classic films.
Probably lacks the punch of the Steinbeck novel in transferring his characters to the screen in accordance with the code of the '50s.