Paul Muni
Wang Lung
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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
- 138
Synopsis. 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
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.
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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The Good Earth. Paul Muni stars in this epic adaptation of the Pearl Buck classic about Chinese farmers battling the elements to survive. Nominated for Best Picture and Director. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
