Good Earth (1937)

Product Summary Publisher: Warner Format: DVD UPC: 00012569692626 Buy.com Sku: 202062348 Item#: V279S9 Category Keywords: Epic  Family Interaction  Melodrama  Orient  Period Piece  Rags To Riches  Rating: NR     Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Aspect Ratio 1.33:1, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled   First came marriage, an arranged union of peasant farmer Wang Lung (Paul Muni) and kitchen slave O-Lan (Luise Rainer). Then, through poverty and wealth, family and betrayal, war and pestilence, came love.From Pearl S. Buck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Good Earth combines Wang and O-Lan's story with a sweeping saga of China in upheaval. Muni and Rainer had both won 1936 Academy Awards,* and Rainer repeated here with another Best Actress Oscar.* The film also won for Best Cinematography - with camerawork most powerfully on display in the astonishing locust-plague sequence. Producer Irving Thalberg, known for combining literary prestige with commercial success, died during the production, and the film is dedicated to him.Running Time: 138 min.Format: DVD MOVIE   "One of the finest things Hollywood has done this season or any other. Does full justice to the novel."  Frank S. Nugent, New York Times   Editor's Note Excellent, painstaking adaptation of Pearl S. Buck's 1931 tome about a Chinese peasant family whose rise to wealth nearly destroys them, save for the saintly O-Lan. The special effects and the cinematography are wonderful and Rainer won the second of her consecutive Oscars for Best Actress. This was Thalberg's last production and is dedicated to his memory. Academy Award Nominations: 5, including Best Picture; Best Director.   Features Audio: English, French Mono Hollywood Party [1937 MGM Short] Interactive Menus Scene Selection Subtitles: English, French, Spanish Supreme Court of Films Picks the Champions [Newsreel] Theatrical Trailers   Technical Info Release Information Studio: Warner Release Date: 1/31/2006 Running Time: 138 minutes Original Release Date: 1937 Catalog ID: 66926 UPC: 00012569692626 Number of Discs: 1 Audio & Video Original Language: English Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish Video: B&W Aspect Ratio Standard  1.33:1 [4:3]   Cast & Crew Charlie Grapewin Keye Luke Luise Rainer Paul Muni Donald Davis - Writer Herbert Stothart - Musical Score Irving Thalberg - Producer Karl Freund - Cinematographer Pearl S. Buck - Based On Novel By Sidney Franklin - Director   Awards Oscar (1938) Luise Rainer, Winner, Best Actress Karl Freund, Winner, Best Cinematography     Sidney Franklin, Nominee, Best Director     Basil Wrangell, Nominee, Best Editing     Irving Thalberg, Albert Lewin, Nominee, Best Picture    Product Image