This title is licensed for public performance by Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. George and Lennie, two drifting ranch hands in Depression-era California, come to work in the Salinas Valley. They are never able to work up a stake because simple-witted Lennie keeps getting them into trouble. They begin to dream of better days but soon fall prey to merciless torment which leads to tragic consequences. Steinbeck's famed novel of two itinerant ranch hands on the run, starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise. (English, French and Spanish Subtitles).