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Release Date:
6 August 1937 (USA)
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Tagline:
China . . . . Land of unrest . . . tomorrow they may Starve !
Plot:
The story of a farmer in China: a story of humility and bravery. His father gives Wang Lung a freed slave as wife...
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Awards:
Won 2 Oscars.
Another 3 nominations
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Music: Review:The Feelies: Crazy Rhythms / The Good Earth
(From The AV Club. 14 September 2009, 10:00 PM, PDT)
The Feelies: Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth
(From PasteMagazine. 8 September 2009, 6:00 AM, PDT)
(From The AV Club. 14 September 2009, 10:00 PM, PDT)
The Feelies: Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth
(From PasteMagazine. 8 September 2009, 6:00 AM, PDT)
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A Blockbuster That Retains Its Magic
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Paul Muni | ... | Wang Lung |
 | Luise Rainer | ... | O-Lan |
| Walter Connolly | ... | Uncle |
| Tilly Losch | ... | Lotus |
| Charley Grapewin | ... | Old Father |
| Jessie Ralph | ... | Cuckoo |
| Soo Yong | ... | Aunt |
| Keye Luke | ... | Elder Son |
| Roland Lui | ... | Younger Son |
| Suzanna Kim | ... | Little Fool |
| Ching Wah Lee | ... | Ching |
| Harold Huber | ... | Cousin |
| Olaf Hytten | ... | Liu - Grain Merchant |
| William Law | ... | Gateman |
| Mary Wong | ... | Little Bride |
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Runtime:
138 min
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Black and White (Sepiatone)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) |
West Germany:12 |
UK:A |
South Korea:All |
Sweden:15 (DVD rating) |
Australia:G |
Finland:K-16 |
USA:Approved (PCA #2584)
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For the second year in a row, Luise Rainer won a Best Actress Oscar, becoming the first performer to win two Academy Awards and the first to win two Oscars in two years.
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Continuity: Unexplained sequence of events or possible error in continuity. Toward the beginning of the film, Farmer Wang walks to the Great House to meet his bride, O-Lan. He is carrying a basket. It appears to be empty. As he enters a market, the farmer declines to buy peaches. We don't see him purchase goods or trade for anything. We don't see him filling the basket. However, the next scene shows him at the door of the house with a full basket. Later, he does buy peaches. At this point, however, we're still not made aware how he has money or silver.
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Quotes:
O-Lan:
When I go back in that house, it will be with my son in my arms. I'll have a red coat on him... and red flower trousers... and a hat with a gilded Buddha and tiger-faced shoes, and I'll go into the kitchen where I spent my days as a slave and into the great hall where the old mistress sits with her pipe, and I'll show myself and my son to all of them.
O-Lan: [Smiles, contented] Hmm.
Wang Lung: Well... Now, I... I haven't heard you speak so many words since you came to this house.
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O-Lan: [Smiles, contented] Hmm.
Wang Lung: Well... Now, I... I haven't heard you speak so many words since you came to this house.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "M*A*S*H: Love and Marriage (#3.20)" (1975)
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How closely does the movie follow the book?Who is Irving Grant Thalberg, the person to whom this film is dedicated?
Is "The Good Earth" based on a book?
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Sure, 65 years have passed since Thalberg's last production was filmed. But fellow IMDB members, come on, this movie is surely one of the masterpieces of the 30's! It is a 10.
This was the first movie I saw at New York's Museum of Modern Art, around 1970 (I was a teenager). Expensive looking yet with scenes of such poverty, masterfully photographed, often thrilling, and always engaging, to me it was MGM movie-making at its best. What did audiences feel when they glimpsed a locust attack, the person by person destruction of a mansion, the horrific poverty and then the splendor of wealth.
Last week, those watching the Academy Awards had a glimpse of the "senior" Oscar winner in attendance, Luise Rainer. How grand to see an actress who arguably delivered one of the most masterful, haunting performances in history electing to return for a celebration.
Ok, so she should not have won the year before (Great Ziegfeld), but don't blame Luise. Talkies were only a decade old when this was released, and her dialogue limited. But as Olan, her use of visual and vocal is memorable.
Large scale and touching, what more could a movie lover want!