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    Cannery Row (1982)

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    A marine biologist – and former baseball player – befriends a group of down-and-outs, changing his life irrevocably in this drama based on the John Steinbeck novel and starring Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Audra Lindley, Frank McRae and M Emmet Walsh.

    Raquel Welch was originally cast but was fired midway through filming. It’s a pity, as her buxom sexuality might have roused this story of waterfront bums in the 1940s from its languor.

    Welch, then 40, filed a $24 million breach of contract suit when she was abruptly booted from the lead role. 25-year-old Debra Winger took on the Welch role of a hooker who yearns for (the excellent Nolte) a baseball star-turned-marine biologist.

    MGM’s lawyers said the studio fired Welch because she was a “temperamental actress”, but the jury sided with Welch and an appeals court upheld the decision, awarding the actress $10 million ($8 million of which was for punitive damages).

    Welch actually ended up making more money from Cannery Row than MGM did. The $11 million production earned them just $5 million domestically.

    Director David S Ward wrote The Sting (1973), but his screenplay here lacks that movie’s zip and suffers from an episodic narrative.

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    Nick Nolte
    Suzy DeSoto
    Debra Winger
    Fauna Flood
    Audra Lindley
    Hazel
    Frank McRae
    Mack
    M. Emmet Walsh
    Hughie
    Tom Mahoney
    Jones
    John Malloy
    Eddie
    James Keane
    The Seer
    Sunshine Parker
    Joseph and Mary
    Santos Morales
    Wisteria
    Ellen Blake
    Agnes
    Sharon Ernster
    Violet
    Kathleen Doyle
    Lola
    Mary Margaret Amato
    Narrator
    John Huston

    Director
    David S. Ward

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