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Dragon Seed (1944) Rank 2 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Dragon Seed (1944) a score of 2.9150 out of 4
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Dragon Seed (1944) scores a combined 2.39 out of 4 stars for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
The effective family value wartime drama clearly shows that turning the other cheek might not be the best way to handle aggressors. It remains strangely compelling despite being overlong and the western actors though competently performing their roles ...read the complete Dragon Seed movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)

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Users combined give Dragon Seed (1944) a score of 3.6 out of 4
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by Kevin Killian on March 01, 2005
June Allyson was pencilled in tentatively as the studio's choice for Jade, the young and rebellious daughter-in-law of a provincial Chinese family, until Joseph Pasternak was made aware of Katharine Hepburn's sudden interest in the property. As a ...
by Simon Davis on August 12, 2004
The work of Nobel Prize winning authoress Pearl S. Buck, had already been filmed in MGM's stunning 1937 ...
by a viewer "a viewe... on August 04, 2004
First let me say I am not a Katharine Hepburn fan. This is only one of two movies where I can take her. ...
I really don't understand the review beneath mine. Such a one as that gives no justice to a movie so great as this one. My review will be divided into two paragraphs, the first, a basic paragraph with no spoilers, and the second, a paragraph which ...
by S. Jumel on December 09, 2001
Even though Katherine Hepburn makes a lousy visual Chinawoman, she is still a great woman and it comes out in this film. Very soon into the viewing you fully believe in her. The plot is full of ...
by R. Bagula "Roger ... on May 02, 2009
A WWII propaganda film which appears to back Mao and his Communists and ignore the Nationalists of Chiang Kai-shek. The strange thing is that as villainous as the Japanese are made out to be in this movie, the truth was actually worse in the Japanese ...

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2.1141
Dragon Seed (1944) is ranked overall as  out of 4 stars
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2.9150
Dragon Seed (1944) is ranked overall as  out of 4 stars
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