The Good Earth

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Call Number: DVD Drama Good
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Originally released as a motion picture in 1937.
Based on the novel by Pearl S. Buck.
Special features: Vintage musical short "Hollywood party"; "Supreme court of films picks the champions" newsreel; theatrical trailer.
Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly, Tilly Losch, Charley Grapewin.
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.
DVD, region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
Contents: Good earth.

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Yellowface all over the place submitted by willow on August 15, 2015, 9:54pm Paul Muni plays Wang Ling the farmer, Luise Rainer plays O-Lan, and Tilly Losch plays Lotus. Anna May Wong had been cast as O-Lan but anti-miscengenation laws in the Hays Code made an interracial kiss unacceptable. Ranier had limited racializing makeup, but Muni had taped eyelids, behaves like a buffoon, and speaks gibberish that is supposed to be Chinese.