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The Green Pastures is a 1936 American film depicting stories from the Bible as visualized by black characters. It starred Rex Ingram (in several roles, including "De Lawd"), Oscar Polk, and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson.
The Green Pastures is a play written in 1930 by Marc Connelly adapted from Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun (1928), a collection of stories written by Roark Bradford. The play was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930. It had the first all-black Broadway cast.
Green Pastures, The - (Original Trailer) God tests the human race in a reenactment of Bible stories set in the world of black American folklore in The Green Pastures (1936), starring Rex Ingram.
The Green Pastures: Directed by Marc Connelly, William Keighley. With Rex Ingram, Oscar Polk, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Frank H. Wilson. God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
A preacher in a small African-American church in Louisiana tells his Sunday school class stories from the Bible as if the characters were part of a local fish fry.
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Get your mind fixed for The Green Pastures. It's a film of its time. Butlike all great art, it transcends it. Based on Marc Connelly'sfolk-themed Pulitzer Prize-winning play. 791 IMDb 7.0 1 h 32 min 1936. X-Ray 13+. Comedy · Drama · Cerebral · Dreamlike. Available to rent or buy.
Get your mind fixed for The Green Pastures. It's a film of its time. But like all great art, it transcends it. "You gotta git your minds fixed," the rural preacher tells Sunday School...
