The Good Earth (film) the Best Actress award (Luise Rainer), the film won for Best Cinematography. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: 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
Sai Jinhua of Chinese literature at Peking University, conducted an interview with Sai Jinhua. He wrote "The Wife of Zhuangyuan: Sai Jinhua", which he called her true story. Wan Xianchu wrote that the Xia Yan drama "Sai Jinhua" "was a particularly influential work." The writing on the play's title page, "The country is everyone's country; to save the country is everyone's duty", is in Sai Jinhua's own handwriting. Jung Chang wrote that Sai Jinhua was "regarded by many as something of a tragic heroine." The play "The Beauty" () is also about Sai Jinhua. In 2012 Liu Xiaoqing, who was a prominent