The Picture Show Annual (1938)

Page scan 00083 from The Picture Show Annual

Record Details:

Title:
The Picture Show Annual
Date:
1938
Author:
Amalgamated Press, Ltd.
Publisher:
London, Amalgamated Press, Ltd.
Volume:
Picture Show Annual (1938)
Leaf #:
00083
Language:
English
Collection:
Year Book, United Kingdom, and Global Cinema
Format:
Annuals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
January 01, 1000
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Wang Lung, the farmer, and his little family, which consists of his wife, O-lan, his father (Charley Grapewin), and his three children, two boys and a little girl who is born dumb, give thanks to the household gods for the prospering of their fortunes, not knowing that famine is ahead of them. EARTH The M.-G.-M. screen version of Pearl Buck’s best seller, the story of Chinese peasant life, is one of the finest films ever made for its realism, poetic feeling and sincerity. Luise Rainer submerges the sparkle and charm We saw in “The Great Ziegfeld,’’ to become the pathetic, drab wife of the peasant farmer, who is por- trayed with vivid reality by Paul Muni. Famine l The young crops have withered in the parched, cracked ground, the Well has become a mudhole, and winter is coming with frost and snow. Starvation faces Wang and his family, for there is nothing in the storehouse. They journey south to the big city where they expect to find food in abundance.