Filmography › John Malloy

All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring John Malloy

John Malloy appears in Cannery Row, the film adaptation of the book by John Steinbeck Sweet Thursday, first published in 1954.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
Cannery Row. Poster of the 1982 movie and cover of the 1954 book, Sweet Thursday
VS3
Sweet Thursday
John Steinbeck, 1954
movie vs book
Cannery Row
David S. Ward, 1982

The story is about the skid row denizens of Monterey, California, during World War II. Doc, a self-employed marine biologist, lives in a dockside warehouse and researches octopi. Suzy DeSoto, a girl from the local bordello, is working there only out of necessity. A collection of linked vignettes describes life on Cannery Row. Doc and Suzy don’t quite fit in, but are accepted.

Cannery Row. Poster of the 1982 movie and cover of the 1945 book
VS3
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck, 1945
movie vs book
Cannery Row
David S. Ward, 1982

The story is about the skid row denizens of Monterey, California, during World War II. Doc, a self-employed marine biologist, lives in a dockside warehouse and researches octopi. Suzy DeSoto, a girl from the local bordello, is working there only out of necessity. A collection of linked vignettes describes life on Cannery Row. Doc and Suzy don’t quite fit in, but are accepted.