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The Good Earth is a 1937 American drama film about Chinese farmers who struggle to survive. It was adapted by Talbot Jennings , Tess Slesinger , and Claudine West from the 1932 play by Owen Davis and Donald Davis , which was in itself based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize -winning author Pearl S. Buck .
The Good Earth: Directed by Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming, Gustav Machatý, Sam Wood. With Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly, Tilly Losch. Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.
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- 1937-08-06
- Drama, Romance
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Nov 17, 2022 · The story of a farmer in China: a story of humility and bravery. His father gives Wang Lung a freed slave as wife. By diligence and frugality the two manage to enlarge their property. But then a famine forces them to leave their land and live in the town.
Apr 20, 2014 · Wang (Paul Muni) is a poor farmer who bears the brunt of living a hand to mouth existence. Into his life comes a new bride, O-Lan (Luise Rainer) & his luck begins to...
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- TVJ41262
Wang Lung, a Chinese farmer, awakens full of anticipation on his wedding day and proceeds to the Great House to fetch his bride, the kitchen slave O-Lan, who was sold into slavery by her parents during a time of famine. That night, the stolid O-Lan cooks and serves a wedding feast to Wang, Old Father, Uncle and friends.
- Sidney Franklin
- Paul Muni
The Good Earth is a historical fiction novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in a 20th-century Chinese village in Anhwei. It is the first book in her House of Earth trilogy, continued in Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935).
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Inspired by a Pearl S. Buck novel, this inspiring drama follows the many ups and downs in the lives of Chinese farmers Wang Lung (Paul Muni) and O-Lan (Luise Rainer). Though the couple initially ...
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