The Good Earth (film) The Good Earth (film) The Good Earth is a 1937 American drama film about Chinese farmers who struggle to survive. It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Owen Davis and Donald Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck. The film was directed by Sidney Franklin, with uncredited contributions by Victor Fleming and Gustav Machaty. The film stars Paul Muni as Wang Lung. For her role as his wife O-Lan, Luise Rainer won an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Katherine Neville (author) on bestseller lists across the globe. Her novel "The Eight" was voted by the Spanish journal "El País" as one of the top ten books of all time. Beth Dora Reisberg in "January Magazine" termed "The Magic Circle" a tour de force. In a review in "The Independent" of London, Barry Forshaw declared that "The Fire" was much better than "The Da Vinci Code". Katherine Neville (author) Katherine Neville (born April 4, 1945) is an American author who writes adventure novels. Her novels include "The Eight" (1988), "A Calculated Risk" (1992), "The Magic Circle" (1998) and "The Fire" (2008), which