Green Pastures
Green Pastures ★★★ 1936
An adaptation of Marc Connelly's 1930 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which attempts to retell Biblical stories in black English vernacular of the ‘30s. Southern theatre owners boycotted the controversial film which had an all-Black cast. 93m/C VHS, DVD . Rex Ingram, Oscar Polk, Eddie Anderson, George Reed, Abraham Graves, Myrtle Anderson, Frank Wilson; D: William Keighley, Marc Connelly; C: Hal Mohr.
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