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The Good Earth (1937)

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Runtime: 2 hrs 18 mins

Synopsis: Excellent, painstaking adaptation of Pearl S. Buck's 1931 tome about a Chinese peasant family whose rise to wealth nearly destroys them, save for the saintly O-Lan. The special effects and the cinematography are wonderful and Rainer won the second of her consecutive Oscars for Best... Excellent, painstaking adaptation of Pearl S. Buck's 1931 tome about a Chinese peasant family whose rise to wealth nearly destroys them, save for the saintly O-Lan. The special effects and the cinematography are wonderful and Rainer won the second of her consecutive Oscars for Best Actress. This was Thalberg's last production and is dedicated to his memory. Academy Award Nominations: 5, including Best Picture; Best Director. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly, Keye Luke, Tillie Losch

Director: Sidney Franklin
Producer: Irving Thalberg
Screenwriter: Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, Frances Marion, Claudine West
Story: Pearl S. Buck
Composer: Herbert Stothart

DVD Info

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Jan 31, 2006

[DVD Details]
  • Good Earth, The
  • First came marriage, an arranged union of peasant farmer Wang Lung (Paul Muni) and kitchen slave O-Lan (Luise Rainer). Then, through poverty and wealth, family and betrayal, war and pestilence, came love.
  • From Pearl S. Buck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Good Earth combines Wang and O-Lan's story with a sweeping saga of China in upheaval. Muni and Rainer had both won 1936 Academy Awards?,* and Rainer repeated here with another Best Actress Oscar?.* The film also won for Best Cinematography - with camerawork most powerfully on display in the astonishing locust-plague sequence. Producer Irving Thalberg, known for combining literary prestige with commercial success, died during the production, and the film is dedicated to him.
  • Source: Warner Home Video
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