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Title The good earth / a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; producer, Irving Thalberg ; adapted for the stage by Owen Davis and Donald Davis ; written by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, Claudine West ; directed by Sidney Franklin.

Publication Info. Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2006]

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  DVD GOOD EARTH    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  DVD GOOD EARTH    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Lobby  CLA DVD GOO    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  CLASSIC DVD GOOD    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  DVD CLA GOO    1 HOLD
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  DVD GOOD    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  DVD GOOD    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  DVD GOOD    Check Shelf
Edition Standard version.
Description 1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD, region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
Note Title from container.
Cast Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly, Tilly Losch, Charley Grapewin.
Credits Cinematographer, Karl Freund ; editor, Basil Wrangell ; music, Herbert Stothart.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1937.
Based on the novel by Pearl S. Buck.
Audience MPAA rating: Not rated.
Summary A young farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initially devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land and takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realizes that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.
Note Special features: Vintage musical short "Hollywood party"; "Supreme court of films picks the champions" newsreel; theatrical trailer.
Language English or French dialogue with optional English, French or Spanish; closed-captioned.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Farmers -- China -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Historical films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Historical films.
Historical -- Feature.
Added Author Thalberg, Irving G., 1899-1936.
Jennings, Talbot.
Franklin, Sidney A., 1893-1972.
Slesinger, Tess, 1905-1945.
West, Claudine, 1890-1943.
Muni, Paul, 1895-1967.
Rainer, Luise, 1910-2014
Connolly, Walter, 1887-1940.
Stothart, Herbert, 1885-1949.
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 Good earth.
Warner Home Video (Firm)
ISBN 0790793083
9780790793085
Standard No. 012569692626
Music No. 66926 Warner Home Video
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