Con-man Gantry is telling risque jokes to a table of other similarly-employed gents.He is lustful, coarse, loud, forceful ambitious, motivated by an easy dollar, golden-tongued, and often drunk.The film""s poster tagline ook advantage of that fact in its splashy advertisements:Nobody""s as good as Bette when she""s bad!The film had troubles from its inception when the Breen Production Code censors warned that Warner Bros.Scriptwriter Sidney Howard wrote the screenplay based upon his 1934 stage adaptation of Sinclair Lewis"" 1929 novel of the same name.]The many taglines on the film""s posters exclaimed:"EAST OF EDEN is a story of explosive passions and Elia Kazan has made it into a picture of staggering power.Many critics/reviewers and fans have considered the film the best of the series.One of the reasons for its success was that the story and screenplay were co-written by Wes Craven.Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption (1994)andThe Green Mile (1999)) also worked on the screenplay.