The Pearl
Steinbeck's most talked-about story!
Directed by Emilio Fernández
Produced by Águila Films, RKO Radio Pictures
A tragic moral fable about greed and fate, centered on a poor fisherman's family torn apart by the corrupting promise of sudden wealth.
Fisherman Quino and his wife Juana are very poor and desperate because the town's foreign doctor refuses to treat their son Coyotito, who has been bitten by a scorpion. When Quino unexpectedly finds a magnificent pearl in the sea, Juana senses that the discovery will only bring them misfortune and tries to convince her husband to return it to the sea.
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