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The Green Pastures
1936 1h 33m Approved
Drama
,
Fantasy
7.0
78%
86%
62%
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God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
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Directed By
Marc Connelly
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William Keighley
Written By
Sheridan Gibney
Studio
Warner Bros. Pictures
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Cast of The Green Pastures
Oscar Polk
Gabriel
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Noah
Rex Ingram
De Lawd / Adam / Hezdrel
Frank H. Wilson
Moses
George H. Reed
Mr. Deshee
Abraham Gleaves
Archangel
Myrtle Anderson
Eve
Al Stokes
Cain
Edna Mae Harris
Zeba
James Fuller
Cain the Sixth
George Randol
High Priest
Ida Forsyne
Noah's Wife
Anna Mae Fritz
Stout Angel / Young Gambler / Second Cleaner (uncredited)
Etta Moten
Angel (uncredited)
The Green Pastures Reviews
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Recreates various Sunday school stories from the Old Testament that's told in a spirited manner.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
Fine film version of the play with Rex Ingram in a brilliant central performance as God.
Kansas City Kansan
Steve Crum
All African-American cast in dated but powerful religious drama.
TV Guide
TV Guide Staff
In many ways, this is one of the best biblical films ever done. Mostly because it doesn't preach, just entertains, and in doing that, puts its lessons across with a minimum of effort.
Movie Metropolis
John J. Puccio
There can be no questioning the uplifting moral fiber of the tales, the infectious spirit of its music, or the genuine affection brought to their parts by the actors involved.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
[Rex Ingram] doubles ably as Adam and the Prophet Hezdrel.
Variety
Variety Staff
The Green Pastures is a simple, enchanting, audience-captivating... cinematic fable.
New York Times
B.R. Crisler
[It's] hard not to like the simple and gratifying theology of [Pastures] as much as anything about it. It has concreteness and gives one a nostalgic feeling that it ought to be true and that if it isn't we are all, somehow, obscurely the worst for it.
New York Age
Ruth A. Duckett
Weren't the children of the Sunday school scene adorable? Weren't the Spirituals inspiring? And above all wasn't Rex Ingram -- divine?
Baltimore Afro-American
Ralph Matthews
This is all a lot of tommyrot, as the only thing it is keeping with is the white man's idea and desire to see the poor black man in rags, squalor, and privation.
Cine-Mundial
Aurelio Pego
It's not easy to make a "divine comedy"... This miracle occurs nonethless in The Green Pastures. [Full review in Spanish]
California Eagle
Leroy S. Hart
Unforgivable.
Esquire Magazine
Meyer Levin (Patterson Murphy)
There have been, in the past, a few minor films about [African American] life. But none has ever approached the pretentious dimensions of Green Pastures.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
It's all ridiculous, of course, but in an open-hearted, naïve sort of way it's an oddly captivating achievement.
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