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The Green Pastures (film)

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The Green Pastures
Directed byMarc Connelly
William Keighley
Screenplay bySheridan Gibney
Produced byJack L. Warner
StarringRex Ingram
Oscar Polk
Eddie Anderson
CinematographyHal Mohr
Edited byGeorge Amy
Music byErich Wolfgang Korngold
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • July 16, 1936 (1936-07-16)
Running time
93 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Green Pastures is a 1936 American film depicting stories from the Bible as visualized by African American characters. It starred Rex Ingram (in several roles, including "De Lawd"), Oscar Polk, and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson. It was based on the novel Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun by Roark Bradford and the subsequent Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Marc Connelly.

Although criticised by civil rights activists at the time, and subsequently, it is one of only six feature films in the Hollywood Studio era to feature an all-African American cast.[1]

Plot summary

God tests the human race in this reenactment of Bible stories set in the world of black American folklore.

Cast

References

  1. ^ G. S. Morris "Thank God for Uncle Tom – Race and Religion Collide in The Green Pastures", Bright Lights, Issue 59, February 2008
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