Rain poster

Rain( 1932)

TV-MADrama
68%
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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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Joan Crawford

      Sadie Thompson

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      Walter Huston

      Alfred Davidson

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      Matt Moore

      Dr. Robert MacPhail

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      Guy Kibbee

      Joe Horn

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      William Gargan

      Sergeant Tim O'Hara

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      Beulah Bondi

      Mrs. Davidson

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      Kendall Lee

      Mrs. MacPhail

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      Fred Howard

      Hodgson

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      Ben Hendricks Jr.

      Griggs

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      Mary Shaw

      Ameena

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      Walter Catlett

      Quartermaster Bates

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Mon 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 w...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    -

    Revenue

    -

    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