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:
Rating: 2/5 --
All African-American cast in dated but powerful religious drama.
Kansas City Kansan
It's all ridiculous, of course, but in an open-hearted, naïve sort of way it's an oddly captivating achievement.
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Combustible Celluloid
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
[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.
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New York Times
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
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
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.
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Time Out
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: 31,583
- UPC: 883316690819
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