Green Pastures

"You gotta git your minds fixed," the rural preacher tells Sunday School children. And the best way to do that fixin´ is from Old Testament stories narrated by the preacher, played by a black cast, backed by the joyful gospel sounds of the Hall Johnson Choir and based on Marc Connelly´s folk-themed Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

Rex Ingram portrays de Lawd, who has a 100,000 things to do before any human´s next breath - like instructing Noah (Eddie Anderson); taking counsel with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; or teaching Moses tricks to dazzle Pharaoh. Get your mind fixed for The Green Pastures. It´s a film of its time. But like all great art, it transcends it.