Rain
A woman without shame. A woman without soul.
Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it incessantly rains. Among the stranded passengers are Sadie Thompson, a prostitute, and Alfred Davidson, a fanatic missionary who will try to redeem her.
- 6.6
- 1932
- Released
- 1h 34m
Joan Crawford
Sadie Thompson
Walter Huston
Alfred Davidson
Matt Moore
Dr. Robert MacPhail
Guy Kibbee
Joe Horn
William Gargan
Sergeant Tim O'Hara
Beulah Bondi
Mrs. Davidson
Kendall Lee
Mrs. MacPhail
Fred Howard
Hodgson
Ben Hendricks Jr.
GriggsMary Shaw
Ameena
Walter Catlett
Quartermaster BatesReleased
en
- #prostitute
- #quarantine
- #missionary
- #rain
- #deluge
- #remake
- #pacific island
- #religious fundamentalism
- #religious hypocrisy
- #pre-code
- #based on short story
- #u.s. marine
- #persecution
- #record player
- #south sea island
- #samoa
- #moral reformation
- #general store
- #reformer
- #tropics
- #fallen woman
- #christian missionary
- #public domain
- #rainy setting
- #cholera epidemic
Reviews
There are times in this film when I could quite cheerfully have hung Walter Huston's "Davidson" from the yardarm... Joan Crawford is "Sadie Thompson" - a prostitute merrily plying her trades on a South Pacific island with the visiting American troops. The arrival of the seriously puritanical "Davidson" couple - Huston and wife Beulah Bondi - soon puts a cramp in her style, though. Their shock and