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The Good Earth (film)

The Good Earth
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Original film poster
Directed by Sidney Franklin
Victor Fleming (uncredited)
Gustav Machatý (uncredited)
Produced by Irving Thalberg
Albert Lewin
(associate producer)
Screenplay by Talbot Jennings
Tess Slesinger
and Claudine West
Based on the novel
by Pearl S. Buck
adapted for the stage by
Owen Davis
and Donald Davis
Starring Paul Muni
and Luise Rainer
Music by Herbert Stothart
Edward Ward (uncredited)
Cinematography Karl Freund, A.S.C.
Edited by Basil Wrangell
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • January 29, 1937 (1937-01-29) (United States)
Running time
138 mins.
Country United States
Language English
Budget $2,816,000
Box office $3,557,000

The Good Earth is a 1937 American drama film about Chinese farmers who struggle to survive. It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Owen Davis and Donald 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, with uncredited contributions by Victor Fleming and Gustav Machaty.

The film stars Paul Muni as Wang Lung. For her role as his wife O-Lan, Luise Rainer won an Academy Award for Best Actress. The film also won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for Karl Freund. It was nominated for Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Picture. Its world premiere was at the elegant Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles.

In pre-World War I northern China, a young farmer Wang Lung (Paul Muni) marries O-Lan (Luise Rainer), a lowly servant at the Great House, the residence of the most powerful family in their village. O-Lan proves to be an excellent wife, hard working and uncomplaining. Wang Lung prospers. He buys more land, and O-Lan gives birth to two sons and a daughter. Meanwhile, the Great House begins to decline.


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