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The Green Pastures (1936) -- Trailer for this film based on the play

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Writers:
Roark Bradford (novel) and
Marc Connelly (play)
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Release Date:
27 January 1937 (Denmark) more
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God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Rex Ingram ... Adam / De Lawd / Hezdrel
Oscar Polk ... Gabriel
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson ... Noah (as Eddie Anderson)
Frank H. Wilson ... Moses / Sexton (as Frank Wilson)
George Reed ... Mr. Deshee / Aaron
Abraham Gleaves ... Archangel
Myrtle Anderson ... Eve
Al Stokes ... Cain
Edna Mae Harris ... Zeba (as Harris, Edna M.)
James Fuller ... Cain the Sixth
George Randol ... High Priest
Ida Forsyne ... Mrs. Noah
Ray Martin ... Shem
Charles Andrews ... Flatfoot / Gambler (as Chas. Andrews)
Dudley Dickerson ... Ham
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Runtime:
93 min
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The original Broadway stage production won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It opened on Feb. 26, 1930 at the Mansfield Theatre in New York and ran for 640 performances. Juanita Hall, who later played "Bloody Mary" in both the stage and film versions of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic South Pacific (1958), appeared in the original 1930 stage production of "The Green Pastures". more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: The Ark hardly seemed large enough to hold Noah and his family, let alone 2 of every animal. more
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Gabriel: Gangway for the lord god, Jehovah! more
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26 out of 31 people found the following comment useful.
Stereotypical or not, I liked it, 14 August 2001
Author: jweatherford27 from Lexington, KY

I've never seen a movie like this. It's probably one of the most interesting Biblical movies I've ever seen. I'm black and I didn't think it was too offensive, considering the time period that it came from. In fact, my whole family liked it. This is one movie you really have to give a chance before you watch it. Unfortunatelly, movies like this and Disney's "Song of The South" are thrown among the wayside so they won't "corrupt" our "politically correct" society.

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