The Green Pastures
Get your mind fixed for The Green Pastures. It's a film of its time. But like all great art, it transcends it. Based on Marc Connelly's folk-themed Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: January 22, 2013
- Originally Released: 1936
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Rex Ingram, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Frank Wilson & Oscar Polk | |
| Performer: | Edna Mae Harris | |
| Featured: | George Reed | |
| Directed by | Marc Connelly & William Keighley | |
| Edited by | George Amy | |
| Screenplay by | Marc Connelly | |
| Cinematography by | Hal Mohr | |
| Executive Production by | Jack L. Warner & Hal B. Wallis |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 7/10 --
There can be no questioning the uplifting moral fiber of the tales, the infectious spirit of its music, or the genuine affection brought to their parts by the actors involved.
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Movie Metropolis
Green Pastures does not portray the idea of heaven of "thousands of quaint Negroes in the South.'' It doesn't portray the idea of Negroes anywhere, or of any class.
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California Eagle
Rating: 2/5 --
All African-American cast in dated but powerful religious drama.
Kansas City Kansan
Rating: B- --
Recreates various Sunday school stories from the Old Testament that's told in a spirited manner in the lingo of the rural southern Negro.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
There have been, in the past, a few minor films about Negro life. But none has ever approached the pretentious dimensions of Green Pastures, none has given the Negro actor so great and dignified an opportunity as he has [in this film].
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Esquire Magazine
The great folk-classic of the stage, finely transferred to the screen.
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Maclean's Magazine
It's not easy to make a "divine comedy"... This miracle occurs nonethless in The Green Pastures. [Full review in Spanish]
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Description by OLDIES.com:
"You gotta git your minds fixed," the rural preacher tells Sunday School children. And the best way to do that fixin' is from Old Testament stories narrated by the preacher, played by a black cast and backed by the joyful gospel sounds of the Hall Johnson Choir.
Rex Ingram portrays De Lawd, who has a 100,000 things to do before any human's next breath - like instructing Noah (Eddie Anderson); taking counsel with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; or teaching Moses tricks to dazzle Pharaoh.
Rex Ingram portrays De Lawd, who has a 100,000 things to do before any human's next breath - like instructing Noah (Eddie Anderson); taking counsel with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; or teaching Moses tricks to dazzle Pharaoh.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 31,421
- UPC: 883316690819
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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