The Good Earth

Epic dimensions from MGM in the opening scenes, introducing Chinese Wang Lung (Paul Muni) on his wedding day, plus neighbors, his father (Charley Grapewin) and some attitudes, in The Good Earth, 1937.

Chinese peasants, principals Paul Muni and Luise Rainer featured, battle a locust invasion in their fields (really deceased grasshoppers in southern California) in this famous piece of technical wizardry from MGM's The Good Earth (1937).

Generally seen as historic, the opening titles featuring the almost-sole screen credit ever given to MGM studio chief Irving Thalberg, undertaken by his colleagues to mark his death at age 37, from The Good Earth, 1937, from the Pearl S. Buck novel.

Chinese peasant Wang (Paul Muni) meets and marries O-Lan (Luise Rainer, who won the Best Actress Academy Award), early in MGM's The Good Earth, 1937, from the Pearl S. Buck novel.

The Good Earth (1937) is an epic adaptation of the Pearl Buck classic about Chinese farmers battling the elements and stars Luise Rainer & Paul Muni.