The Green Pastures
1936, Drama/Comedy, 1h 33m
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Adam, De Lawd, Hezdrel
Gabriel
Noah
Moses, Sexton
Mr. Deshee, Aaron

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Critic Reviews for The Green Pastures
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[Rex Ingram] doubles ably as Adam and the Prophet Hezdrel.
October 18, 2019 | Full Review… -
The Green Pastures is a simple, enchanting, audience-captivating all-Negro cinematic fable.
March 26, 2009 | Full Review… -
Constructed as a series of Sunday School Bible stories linked by spirituals, it has enormous charm in its folklorish fancies... What is offensive is the way in which the depths of plangent suffering that inspired the spirituals are totally ignored.
June 24, 2006 | Full Review… -
[It's] hard not to like the simple and gratifying theology of [Pastures] as much as anything about it. It has concreteness and gives one a nostalgic feeling that it ought to be true and that if it isn't we are all, somehow, obscurely the worst for it.
May 21, 2003 | Full Review… -
Weren't the children of the Sunday school scene adorable? Weren't the Spirituals inspiring? And above all wasn't Rex Ingram -- divine?
December 10, 2020 | Full Review… -
This is all a lot of tommyrot, as the only thing it is keeping with is the white man's idea and desire to see the poor black man in rags, squalor, and privation.
July 15, 2020 | Full Review…
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