USA,
1981, 480 min
Directed by:
Harvey HartScreenplay:
Richard Alan ShapiroCinematography:
Frank StanleyComposer:
Lee HoldridgeCast:
Timothy Bottoms, Soon-Tek Oh, Hart Bochner, Sam Bottoms, Warren Oates, Anne Baxter, Richard Masur, M. Emmet Walsh, Grace Zabriskie, Howard Duff, Walter Brooke (more)Plots(1)
Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck considered East of Eden his quintessential novel. At more than six hours, this sumptuous production brings Steinbeck's bestseller to the screen more fully and faithfully than any other adaptation. Sweeping from Connecticut to California and from the Civil War to World War I, it follows three generations of the tumultuous Trask family: patriarch Cyrus (Warren Oates); his feuding sons, Adam and Charles (Timothy Bottoms, Bruce Boxleitner); and quarrelsome grandsons, Aron and Cal (Hart Bochner, Sam Bottoms). Through these men's lives slithers Cathy (Jane Seymour) -- a she-serpent who holds their love and enmity. (official distributor synopsis)
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