The Good Earth

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Directed by (View all)

Sam Wood

Gustav Machatý

Starring (View all)

Paul Muni
Wang

Luise Rainer
O-Lan

Walter Connolly
Uncle

Tilly Losch
Lotus

Charley Grapewin
Old Father

Jessie Ralph
Cuckoo

Soo Yong
Aunt

Keye Luke
Elder Son

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Talbot Jennings
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Pearl S. Buck

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The Good Earth

8 years, 9 months ago at Jul 30 16:51

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Grandiose and perhaps too slavishly faithful to Pearl S. Buck’s novel, The Good Earth is a bit of an overstuffed drag. Wunderkind Irving Thalberg’s last film before his premature death, it’s yet another super-production more concerned with spectacle and initial impact than anything concerning art.

The plot follows the novel’s various detours and big set-pieces very faithfull... read more

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Release date: 6 August 1937

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"One time in middle school, I was assigned to read Pearl Buck’s “The Good Earth,” a novel about a Chinese farmer Wang Lung (Paul Muni) who marries a slave O-Lan (Luise Rainer) and experiences the rises and falls of parenthood, financial success and other natural occurrences. Afterwards, I watched the 1937 film adaptation, a fairly faithful version of the book. However, with any adaptation of any source material there has to be changes. First, Wang Lung in the book has a bag of gold stashed "

westly commented on a review of The Good Earth 3 years, 5 months ago

Apparently the reviewer of this movie has no sense of the deeper meaning to the movie . Life is a series of corrections and growth of which the reviewer totally missed altogether. Perhaps I am not as