The Good Earth

The Good Earth

  • Director: Victor Fleming
  • Writer: Talbot Jennings,Tess Slesinger,Claudine West
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: August 6, 1937
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Sarı Esirler
    • "The Good Earth" is a feature film produced by MGM, directed by Sidney Franklin , Victor Fleming , Gustav Machatý, Sam Wood, starring Paul Muni , The Viennese Teardrop , Walter Connolly, etc., on January 29, 1937 Released in the US   .
    Based on the novel of the same name by Pearl Buck, the film tells the story of how Chinese farmers Wang Long and his wife Alan fought poverty and natural disasters through hard work and perseverance, turned from extreme poverty to wealth, and created a happy family of four generations   .

    Photos

    Top cast

    Details

    • Release date August 6, 1937
    • Filming locations Beijing, China
    • Production companies Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

    Box office

    Budget

    $2,800,000 (estimated)

    Movie reviews

     ( 23 ) Add reviews

    • By Elda 2022-04-19 09:02:54

      Forgive my ignorance

      Only today did I know that Hollywood had already made such a famous Chinese line drawing of Pearl Buck into a blockbuster as early as the 1930s.

      Before that, I only knew that Katherine Hepburn played the Chinese Red Lady, and I was amazed by Queen Kay's performance at that time. In today's era of China's rise, looking back on the collision between Eastern and Western cultures, I suddenly feel that the world is vast and human beings are stupid. trapped in it.

      In fact, this...

    • By Elaina 2022-04-19 09:02:54

      Classics in the context of the era, classics only belong to that era

      For modern people, it is a treasure. You can understand the past life and understand the meaning of land, just like the current land is a source of profit for random buying and selling. The locust disaster is really shocking. After watching this movie, I can't tell the sadness and depression. I don't like this work for some reason. It portrays the poverty of the Chinese people, the hysteria of dealing with poverty, and the worship of the land so deeply. Then I realize that this is a film...

    • By Chaya 2022-04-19 09:02:54

      Why not watch "1942"

      Narrated by Western values, the original novel was born during the Great Depression in the United States. This film (the popularity of this novel) is more of a curiosity, that is, Americans' curiosity about China, just like the Chinese films of the 1980s and 1990s, which were popular overseas; on the other hand, it is a kind of "will One’s own happiness is built on the suffering of others.” When you are miserable, seeing someone more miserable than yourself, you can’t help but feel a “little...

    • By Linnea 2022-04-19 09:02:54

      The traditional inferiority of farmers' stories

      Why was Wang Lung able to leap from the peasant class to the landlord class? Why is Lan still unable to accept it? Doomed from the start

      One day early in the morning, the farmer Wang Long woke up from his sleep with a smile on his face. Today is the day he married his wife, and his conversation exudes optimism.

      Lan, however, kept her face sullen until she overheard men compliment her on her good cooking, and then she smiled alone.

      The difference in personality and the...

    • By Gregorio 2022-04-19 09:02:54

      [Last Film I Watched] The Good Earth (1937)

      Title: The Good Earth
      Year: 1937
      Country: USA
      Language: English
      Genre: Drama, Romance
      Director: Sidney Franklin
      Writers:
      Talbot Jennings
      Tess Slesinger
      Claudine West
      based on the novel by Pearl S. Buck
      Music: Herbert Stothart
      Cinematography: Karl Freund
      Cast:
      Paul Muni
      Luise Rainer
      Walter Connolly
      Charley Grapewin
      Keye Luke
      Roland Lui
      Tilly Losch
      Ching Wah Lee
      Jessie Ralph
      Victor...

    User comments

      ( 94 ) Add comments

    • By Carli 2023-08-26 09:17:52

      It's very interesting. The Chinese and Western flavors of the film are mixed and quite similar. It is a study to figure out the other eye of Westerners looking at China in that...

    • By Derick 2023-08-20 18:44:30

      The classic works are far more powerful than the award-winning "Zola Biography", and Louise Reiner's performance is far better than when she won the award the previous year. She looks like Aunt May for a lot of time, and the image of the suffering woman is vivid and vivid. Although foreigners are playing Chinese and telling Chinese stories, there is no sense of disobedience. I have no in-depth understanding of China at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, but...

    • By Troy 2023-07-20 05:08:45

      8.5 The two episodes of the turmoil and the locust plague were amazing. More importantly, as a Hollywood movie in the 1930s, there was no element of demonizing the Chinese at all. The superb acting skills of the protagonists made the audience gradually forget the racial differences. , and also created an image of such a forbearing and resolute Chinese woman, which seems to be unattainable in today's...

    • By Brandy 2023-06-22 07:44:47

      The couple's love for the earth brought tears to the eyes, and the wife's tolerance for her husband made her angry, especially when the husband asked his wife for the pair of pearl earrings. This movie is a bit long and tiring to watch, it seems like more than 3...

    • By Donna 2023-05-29 08:46:05

      My TM was once again surprised. Counting the familiar Paul Mooney, the heroine is actually the one from the song and dance king Siegfried, God. The technology is really advanced, and the protagonist's acting skills are even more impressive! ! Really Underrated American...

    Movie plot

    Wang Long was a poor but industrious and optimistic farmer. He lost his mother when he was young and lived with his father in a thatched hut. He lived in extremely difficult conditions, smashing stones to make fire, and only took a bath once a year. But even so, Wang Long and the neighbors around him are full of energy and full of confidence in life. They cultivated the fields and used their hard work to survive. When he entered the...
    more about The Good Earth Movie plot

    Screenwriting

    In 1933, when the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles knew that MGM was going to shoot the film, it immediately negotiated with MGM, hoping that the film would not reproduce the unfriendly description of the Chinese in the original work, because the original novel vilified the Xinhai Revolution. The highest body in charge of film censorship in China, the Film Censorship Commission, is also cautious. After a period of mediation, the Film...
    more about The Good Earth Screenwriting

    Evaluation action

    The twists and turns of the Wang Long family in "The Good Earth", the natural and sincere performances of the main characters, and the sincere feelings of the main characters have provided the American public with a rich image of Chinese peasants, which to a large extent corrected their former generalization of the Chinese people. And vague understanding. The perseverance, industriousness, fearlessness of the Chinese peasants in the...
    more about The Good Earth Evaluation action

    Movie quotes

    • Wang Lung: If you could have a little food, you'd have strength to bring the child. I'll find it. Tomorrow I'll...

      O-Lan: When have you had food ?

      Wang Lung: There's a thing in me that hurts... and not hunger. But a man has no words.

      O-Lan: No words... but I know.

      Wang Lung: O-Lan, the earth has forgotten us.

    • Ching: Hunger makes men mad.

    • Wang Lung: [must sell his land to feed his family but the buyers take advantage of him] Thieves ! Thieves ! And well you know I must sell.

      O-Lan: No ! Not the land. We'll not sell the land. We'll keep it. We'll go south and when we return, we'll still have the land.

      Uncle: But I've arranged it. I brought these men here. You MUST sell !

      O-Lan: Is it your land ? Did you buy it bit by bit ? The land is our life... and it's better to go south... or die walking... than to give it to you for nothing.

    Drama

    Movies Directed by Victor Fleming

    Movies Starring Paul Muni

    RESOURCES
    Customer Service
    Information
    Movie Articles: AA AB AC AD AE AF AG AH AI AJ AK AL AM AN AO AP AQ AR AS AT AU AV AW AX AY AZ A0-9
    Movie Topics : A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9
    Copyright © 2022 Dogesflix.com All Rights Reserved.