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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  • 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)

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User Ratings: 839
Rating: 2/5 -- All African-American cast in dated but powerful religious drama.
Kansas City Kansan
Jan 2, 2005
It's all ridiculous, of course, but in an open-hearted, naïve sort of way it's an oddly captivating achievement. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Feb 16, 2006
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. Full Review
California Eagle
Oct 18, 2019
[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. Full Review
New York Times
May 21, 2003
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. Full Review
Movie Metropolis
Jan 6, 2006
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. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Jan 15, 2007
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. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006

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"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.

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  • UPC: 883316690819
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