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The Good Earth
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DVD Details
- Vintage Musical Short Hollywood Party Supreme Court of Films Picks the Champions Newsreel
- Theatrical Trailer
- Languages: English & French
- Subtitles: English, French & Spanish (Feature Film Only)
- Audio: English (Mono), French (Mono)
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 18 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 31, 2006
- Originally Released: 1937
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Paul Muni, Luise Rainer & Walter Connolly | |
| Performer: | Keye Luke, Tillie Losch, Charley Grapewin, Jessie Ralph & Harold Huber | |
| Directed by | Sidney Franklin | |
| Edited by | Basil Wrangell | |
| Screenplay by | Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger & Claudine West | |
| Original story by | Pearl S. Buck | |
| Composition by | Herbert Stothart | |
| Produced by | Irving Thalberg | |
| Director of Photography: | Karl Freund |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1937 -
Best Actress: Luise Rainer
Academy Awards 1937 -
Best Cinematography: Karl Freund
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 81/100 --
Epic in scope, though intimate in effect.
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Slant Magazine
A superb screen version of Pearl Buck's Chinese novel about peasants, famine, plague, slow poverty and sudden riches.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: B- --
Earnest and solemn, The Good Erath, based on Pearl Buck's Pulitzer prize-winning best-seller, is a typical MGM "prestige" literary adaptation, honoring Luise Rainer with a second (undeserved) Best Actress Oscar.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
No harmful false note is struck.
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Variety
Rating: 3.5/5 --
more of a time capsule than a great piece of filmmaking
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 3/4 --
Once the picture gets past a lumbering opening, it succeeds in involving us in the plight of its struggling protagonists.
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Creative Loafing
Rating: 7/10 --
...an epic tale of a Chinese family who overcomes famine, revolution, locusts, and a whole lot more in their journey from poverty to prosperity.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
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.
Product Description:
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.
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