Dragon Seed
The lives of a Chinese village are turned upside down when the Japanese invade it. A heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese invaders.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
- Run Time: 2 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 22, 2017
- Originally Released: 1944
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamiroff & Turhan Bey | |
Performer: | J. Carrol Naish, Agnes Moorehead, Hurd Hatfield, Henry Travers, Robert Bice, Robert Lewis, Frances Rafferty, Jacqueline deWit & Paul E. Burns | |
Directed by | Jack Conway & Harold S. Bucquet | |
Edited by | Harold F. Kress | |
Screenplay by | Marguerite Roberts & Jane Murfin | |
Original story by | Pearl S. Buck | |
Composition by | Herbert Stothart | |
Art Direction by | Cedric Gibbons & Lyle R. Wheeler | |
Produced by | Pandro S. Berman | |
Director of Photography: | Sidney Wagner |
Entertainment Reviews:
40%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 1,080
A first class show. [Full review in Spanish]
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Cine-Mundial
Rating: 4/5 --
Quite moving, strong drama featuring Kate Hepburn.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Rating: D --
One of MGM's worst melodramas of the 40s and a low point in the career of Hepburn, here miscast as a young and alert Chinese woman. Propaganda picture was made to please the government (and its Chinese allies) but by today's standards it's racist.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: B- --
That Caucasian actors are cast in the primary Oriental roles greatly detracts from the film's authenticity.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Description by OLDIES.com:
When a peaceful Chinese village is invaded by the Japanese prior to WW2, the men elect to adopt a peaceful, don't-rock-the-boat attitude towards their conquerors-and it is understood that the women will stoically acquiesce as well. But Jade (Katharine Hepburn), a headstrong young woman, intends to stand up to the Japanese whether her husband Lao Er (Turhan Bey) approves or not. She even goes so far as to learn to read and to handle a weapon, so that she may properly equipped for both psychological and physical combat. Jade's attitude spreads to the rest of the village, convincing even the staunchest of male traditional that the Japanese can be defeated only by offering a strong united front - male and female.
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 21,551
- UPC: 888574513597
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