May 3 movie: Rain. My god this movie was sordid. Well acted, and I'm glad I saw it, but sheesh! I felt like I needed a shower by the end.
Joan Crawford plays a prostitute who goes to Pago Pago (in Samoa) to try and start a new life. Unfortunately she falls in with an evil missionary (Walter Huston) who punishes Crawford for triggering his own moral bankruptcy. In other words, he wants to have sex with her, and he hates her for it. [major spoilers] Huston bullies and brainwashes Crawford into believing she's a dirty bad icky girl, and that she has to go back to the US and do time for a crime she didn't commit, as repentance for her sins. Huston makes Crawford totally dependant on him, then gives into his own lust and seduces her. Crawford is crushed by this and starts acting like a hooker again. Then she finds out that Huston killed himself after screwing her (off camera so I'm not entirely sure that's what really happened, I maybe was supposed to read between the lines that she killed him? I would rather it ended that way) and then she snaps out of it and runs off with another guy who wants to marry her.
Cree-pee. It's based on a play called Miss Sadie Thompson and I think Rita Hayworth did a version of it too.
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this is based on a short story by william somerset maughum called rain. it's a great story! the missionary really does kill himself out of shame. you ought to read it - its great!