Picture is "The Grapes of Wrath," adapted by Nunnally Johnson from John Steinbeck's best-seller. It is an absorbing, tense melodrama, starkly realistic, and loaded with social and political fireworks.

Kramer: The most expensive book sold at The Last Bookstore was a signed, limited-edition copy of Jack ... like "The Sound and the Fury" or "The Grapes of Wrath," titles that are older but people ...