The Good Earth
Paul Muni stars in this epic adaptation of the Pearl Buck classic about Chinese farmers battling the elements to survive.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
- Run Time: 2 hours, 18 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 2, 2016
- Originally Released: 1937
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
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 |
Entertainment Reviews:
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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: 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
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: 5/5 --
Once again Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has enriched the screen with a superb translation of a literary classic.
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New York Times
No harmful false note is struck.
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Variety
It's a typically lumbering, cautious, overblown Thalberg project, saved by Rainer's genuinely moving, Oscar-winning portrayal of Chinese peasantry, and by an immensely spectacular storm of locusts.
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Time Out
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.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 34,749
- UPC: 888574432461
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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