this adaptation of pearl s. buck film be certainly a classic . a true hollywood epic and it have all the thing a great hollywood film have represent birth and death and happiness and sadness and exhilaration and despair and and so on . there be only one thing that irk me . i know it be a sign of the time and but neither of the two main character be play by asian actor . paul muni be a great actor and and he do an admirable job a wang lung and the owner of a farm in china . luise rainier play olan . she do not even look chinese . i think she try to get the role and but they should have put anna may wong in the role . i know why they do not and and ms. rainy be very good in the film and but they hardly try to make her look authentic . stillm it a great film and especially if you read the book ( i do in high school and decade ago ) . it a must see and just look beyond the casting . i think you can .