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Release Date
29 January 1937
Budget
$3,000,000
Tagline
China . . . . Land of unrest . . . tomorrow they may Starve !
Genre
Country
USA
Filming Locations
Beijing, China
Language
Sound Mix
Color
Film Type
Film Class
Themes
Tones
Tags
Against All Odds,
Drought,
Escape,
Extramarital Affair,
Family,
Farmer,
Locust,
Marriage Arranged,
Opal,
Peasant,
Poverty,
Prejudice,
Revolution,
Self Sacrifice,
Slavery,
Woman
Wikipedia
The Good Earth (1937) is a film about Chinese farmers who struggle to survive. It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Donald Davis and Owen Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck The film was directed by Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming (uncredited) and Gustav Machaty (uncredited).
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