The Green Pastures

1936
Approved
1 Std. 33 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,0/10

946

IHRE BEWERTUNG

trailer wiedergeben3:48

1 Video

14 Fotos

Drama

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuGod, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.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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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,0/10

946

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 4 wins total

Noah
(as Eddie Anderson)

Frank H. Wilson

Moses
(as Frank Wilson)

George Reed

Mr. Deshee…

Abraham Gleaves

Archangel

Myrtle Anderson

Al Stokes

Cain

Edna Mae Harris

Zeba
(as Edna M. Harris)

James Fuller

Cain the Sixth

George Randol

High Priest

Ida Forsyne

Noah's Wife

Ray Martin

Shem

Charles Andrews

Flatfoot
(as Chas. Andrews)

Dudley Dickerson

Jimmy Burress

Japheth

Billy Cumby

Abraham
(as William Cumby)
…

Ivory Williams

Jacob

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Wissenswertes
The studio's anxiety about this film's all-Black cast is evident in the film's 3:48 minute trailer. It consists of white actor Dick Powell talking directly to the camera, white workers preparing costumes and props, and author Marc Connelly explaining the rationale for the bare sets to a studio executive. According to Connelly, it is how a "simple, devout" people would imagine heaven. At no time are Rex Ingram or any of the film's other stars shown in the preview, and there is only a brief sequence of black extras in a long shot.

Patzer
One of Noah's son's rides a zebra that is clearly a donkey or mule made to look like a zebra. Two real zebras are loaded while he rides the fake.

Zitate
Gabriel: Gangway. Gangway, for the Lawd God, Jehovah!

Crazy Credits
God appears in many forms to those who believe in Him. Thousands of Negroes in the Deep South visualize God and Heaven in terms of people and things they know in their everyday life. The Green Pastures is an attempt to portray that humble, reverent conception.

Verbindungen
Edited into Governing Body (2023)

Soundtracks
Have You Got Good Religion (Certainly, Lord)
(uncredited)
Traditional spiritual
Performed by the Hall Johnson Choir

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Ausgewählte Rezension

9/10

One of a Kind

The Green Pastures enacts Old Testament Bible stories as seen through the eyes of rural black children. The movie begins in a ramshackle church, generations ago, presumably in the Deep South. As the Sunday School teacher relates the Bible stories we are transported to Heaven to witness the Creation, the Banishment from the Garden of Eden, the Flood, and the Exodus. An all-black cast, speaking in the rural idiom, and set in modern day (1930s) surroundings makes for one of the most unique movies you will ever see.

All the pieces fit together perfectly. It's a joy to watch, deeply spiritual, and the gospel choir accompaniment is an added treat. Grade A.