Tag: Ben Lucien Burman

• “Heaven on Earth”: Shantyboats Go to Hollywood Again

  

  Film director Russell Mack’s Heaven on Earth (Universal Studios, December 1, 1931), based on Ben Lucien Burman’s 1929 novel, Mississippi, reintroduced American moviegoers to the world of the Mississippi River poor. The movie was released eleven years after King Vidor’s silent shantyboat film, The Jack-Knife Man. When Mack scouted filming locations, Harry Pollard, director of…

  Gregg Andrews

  February 7, 2023

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  Anita Louise, Ben Lucien Burman, Harry Beresford, John Carradine, Lew Ayres, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Roustabouts, Russell Mack, Shantyboats, Tennessee Belle