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DRAGON SEED – Herbert Stothart
GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Original Review by Craig Lysy
MGM achieved stunning commercial and critical success adapting novelist Pearl S. Buck’s “The Good Earth” 1937 to the big screen. As such they decided to purchase the film rights to Buck’s subsequent novel “Dragon Seed,”, which was also set in 1930’s China. Pandro Berman was placed in charge of production with a $3 million budget, Jack Conway and Harold S. Bucquet would share directing duties, and Marguerite Roberts and Jane Murlin would write the screenplay. For the cast, Katherine Hepburn would star as Jade, joined by Walter Huston as Ling Tan, Aline MacMahon as Ling Tan’s wife, Akim Tamiroff as Wu Lien, Turhan Bey as Lao Er Tan, and Lionel Barrymore providing narration. Read more…
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