God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
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Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
- Noah
- (as Eddie Anderson)
Frank H. Wilson
- Moses
- (as Frank Wilson)
Edna Mae Harris
- Zeba
- (as Edna M. Harris)
Charles Andrews
- Flatfoot
- (as Chas. Andrews)
Billy Cumby
- Abraham
- (as William Cumby)
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- TriviaThe studio's anxiety about this film's all-Black cast is evident in the film's 3:48 minute trailer. It consists of white actor Dick Powell talking directly to the camera, white workers preparing costumes and props, and author Marc Connelly explaining the rationale for the bare sets to a studio executive. According to Connelly, it is how a "simple, devout" people would imagine heaven. At no time are Rex Ingram or any of the film's other stars shown in the preview, and there is only a brief sequence of black extras in a long shot.
- GoofsOne of Noah's son's rides a zebra that is clearly a donkey or mule made to look like a zebra. Two real zebras are loaded while he rides the fake.
- Crazy creditsGod appears in many forms to those who believe in Him. Thousands of Negroes in the Deep South visualize God and Heaven in terms of people and things they know in their everyday life. The Green Pastures is an attempt to portray that humble, reverent conception.
- ConnectionsEdited into Governing Body (2023)
- SoundtracksHave You Got Good Religion (Certainly, Lord)
(uncredited)
Traditional spiritual
Performed by the Hall Johnson Choir
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I watched this movie late at night with a bunch of munchkins and wondered why more of the adults didn't come watch it with us... It is a unique, well-made, unassuming, enjoyable, surprising, well-told "story." I say "story," because it is a description more than a tale of one way to conceive of the "Lawd of heaven." Gotta love the southern accents. They did a great job and left me rethinking the way I thought of things and smiling as I thought of the way they portrayed it all. It was also curious to me to see how society's perception of music, race, and Sundays has changed, but how some things never change.
Favorite quote... by "The Lawd" - "I'm going ta make me a miracle"
Favorite quote... by "The Lawd" - "I'm going ta make me a miracle"
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- Aug 14, 2005
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- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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