Rain (1932)

12/10/1932 (US)•Drama•1h 34m

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A woman without shame. A woman without soul.

Overview

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.

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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.
Griggs

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A review by CinemaSerf

7.0

Written by CinemaSerf on Jun 13, 2022

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 disgust at this slatternly behaviour leads them to try to get her deported back to America (where she has a bit of a wicked past), ostensibly in a bid to save her moral soul. Crawford is super as the ...