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The Green Pastures
Directed by
William Keighley
,
Marc Connelly
Approved
1936
1h 33m
Drama
,
Fantasy
7.0
78%
84%
6.3
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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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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 / Aaron
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)
Bill Cumby
Abraham / Head Magician / King of Babylon
Clarence Muse
Angel (uncredited)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Zubo (uncredited)
Ernest Whitman
Pharaoh
Willie Best
Henry - the Angel (uncredited)
Dudley Dickerson
Ham
The Green Pastures Ratings & Reviews
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.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
[Rex Ingram] doubles ably as Adam and the Prophet Hezdrel.
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.
Variety
Variety Staff
The Green Pastures is a simple, enchanting, audience-captivating... cinematic fable.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Recreates various Sunday school stories from the Old Testament that's told in a spirited manner.
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.
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.
Kansas City Kansan
Steve Crum
All African-American cast in dated but powerful religious drama.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
Fine film version of the play with Rex Ingram in a brilliant central performance as God.
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.
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.
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