Top billed cast

1. 

   Joan Crawford

   Sadie Thompson

2. 

   Walter Huston

   Alfred Davidson

3. 

   Matt Moore

   Dr. Robert MacPhail

4. 

   Guy Kibbee

   Joe Horn

5. 

   William Gargan

   Sergeant Tim O'Hara

6. 

   Beulah Bondi

   Mrs. Davidson

7. 

   Kendall Lee

   Mrs. MacPhail

8. 

   Fred Howard

   Hodgson

9. 

   Ben Hendricks Jr.

   Griggs

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-13

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 ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• 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