from the upper shelf of great classic book and come this masterful story write by pearl buck . the book like the movie be call the good earth . it relate the story of wang lung ( paul muni ) a simple chinese farmer who begin his day with a trip to the great house where he have take a slave woman call o lan ( luise rainer ) and make her his wife . almost from the beginning and she begin to adapt to his kindness by save a small peach seed and plant it near her new home . during the following year and o lan prove her worth by steadfastly share her husband toil and trouble and change fortune . through the passing year and they raise a family and watch their simple household weather both feast and famine . indeed and it at the low point in their life that each discover the value of companionship and loyalty and love . with the change time and their grow family be both aided and threaten with friend and relative and like their uncle ( walter connolly ) who be a scoundrel and charlatan and but be compassionately tolerate . wang have his old father ( charley grapewin ) to advise and remind him of life fragile and fickle nature . two notable actor who make impressive appearance in this film be keye luke who play wang elder son and phillip ahn who play a nationalist soldier . the film be in black and white and be wonderfully adapt from the novel . highly recommend for all audience . .