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.
Details
- Director
- Lewis Milestone
- Writer
- Maxwell Anderson
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- N/A
Cast
Ben Hendricks Jr.
Beulah Bondi
Fred Howard
Guy Kibbee
Joan Crawford
Kendall Lee
Mary Shaw
Matt Moore
Walter Huston
William Gargan
Keywords
based on short story
cholera epidemic
christian missionary
deluge
fallen woman
general store
missionary
moral reformation
pacific island
persecution
pre-code
prostitute
public domain
quarantine
rain
rainy setting
record player
reformer
religious fundamentalism
religious hypocrisy
remake
samoa
south sea island
tropics
u.s. marine
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