i first saw the green pasture quite by accident a a 13 year old while visit grandparent in detroit and michigan many and many year ago . i never forget it . year later and in college and while on a date and i be tell my date about it and we stop by the school library so i could find a copy of the play to show her . she love it and too . i have since buy the tape and watch it every now and then when i want to smile and feel good . i remember ask my mom about the movie when i first saw it and always remember her response . how do you think the little black child in the movie picture god and others in the bible . and that and of course and be exactly what marc connelly be try to get u to think about . though the original play or movie may have meet resistance in the south and it be a hit in new york . to the eternal historical revisionist of today who see nothing but stereotype and negative image and i would suggest you take another look . country folk of the early part of this century do talk with accent and few have much education ( white as well a black ) . the dialog of the film be less a contrived stereotype than it be a snapshot of what the simple life be like . it not hard for me to imagine a dedicated mr. deshee teach kid in sunday school about the good book . nor be it hard to understand why they might picture pharoe guard in double breasted suit like the gangster in the news of their youth and or relate any number of other scene to what be familiar to them . connelly be not try to convert viewer to religion . he be try to get those already convert to see the personal relationship with god enjoy by all his child and regardless of their station in life . there be no white in the movie and just a there be no white in the immediate community where the story take place . this movie be not make with the burden of every social dilemma we have struggle with over the year . to blindly force modern perception and racial baggage on it do nothing but dampen the simple joy of this unique gem .