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.
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
Mary Shaw
Ameena
Director
Lewis Milestone
Screenplay
Maxwell Anderson
Tagline
"A woman without shame. A woman without soul."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Production
Feature Productions, United Artists
CinemaSerf
June 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 ...
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