THE GREEN PASTURES
Rex Ingram, Oscar Polk, Eddie Anderson
MGM/UA; Directed by Marc Connelly, William Keighley
Black and White; Not Rated; 93 minutes; 1936
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Marc Connelly, THE GREEN PASTURES is the story of the Bible as imagined by black children in a small Sunday school in the South. The naivete, humor and love of life through their imaginations turn the familiar stories into authentic folk-tales.