Cannery Row

Doc

Suzy DeSoto

Fauna Flood

Hazel

Mack

Hughie

Jones

Eddie

The Seer

Joseph and Mary

Narrator (voice)

Wisteria

Agnes

Violet

Lola

Martha

Blossom

The Pitcher

Golden Poppy Waitress

Beer Milkshake Waitress

Doctor

Ellen Sedgewick (as Rosana DiSoto)

Sonny

Doorman

Boy

Tucker (as Joe Terry)

Tackle

Frat Boy #1

Frat Boy #2

Frat Boy #3

Frat Boy #4

Frat Boy #5

Frat Boy #6

Frat Boy #7

Frat Boy #8

Barmaid (uncredited)

Bartender (uncredited)

A theatrical stage version of John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" was first produced in 1995.

The original screenplay for this film was based only on John Steinbeck's novel "Cannery Row" and did not include its sequel "Sweet Thursday" as the movie in the end did.

The Cannery Row street scene exteriors were actually filmed on a sound stage in Culver City. The Cannery Row strip still exists in Monterey but the canning businesses of an earlier era are all but gone and it is now mostly a marine sanctuary.

During the "sick or a busted arm" scene in the Golden Poppy between Suzy and Hazel, the number of ketchup bottles with and without caps changes between shots.

When Mack sits down at the open upright piano and starts playing during the final party scene, none of the hammers - which are clearly visible - move.

When Susie brings the macaroons to Doc, the rattlesnake cage is a few inches below her elbow. In the next shot, the cage is a few inches above her elbow.

Narrator: [voice over] Cannery Row has never been like anywhere else. For one thing, its people are different. When the town died off, most of them failed to notice. Some say nobody would live here if they didn't have to, but there are some, like The Seer, who wouldn't live anywhere else, even if they could. Of all the people on Cannery Row, Doc is probably the best known. He makes as good a living as he needs by collecting marine animals and selling them to colleges and museums. Over the years, Doc became a pillar of the community, and its fountain of science and philosophy. He had friends he didn't even know about, and some he would never forget - friends like Mack and the boys. Mack is the elder and leader of a small group of men who have in common no families, no money and no ambition, beyond the time to discuss matters of interest but little importance. The youngest and by far the strongest of the group is Hazel. A childhood illness is said to have left him with a slightly diminished mental capacity. As a result, he had the mind of a small boy grafted to the body of a bull.

Fauna: The stars say that you are gonna be - oh... that you are gonna be President of the United States!

Narrator: [voice over] After an hour or so, Doc was tired of driving. Something more was needed to combat his restlessness, with an element of danger maybe. Because he could find no one to get into a fight with, he did the next best thing.