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Red Dust

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When earthy prostitute Vantine (Jean Harlow) arrives at Dennis Carson's (Clark Gable) rubber plantation in Indochina, she initiates a steamy affair with the rugged foreman, but is sent packing when the passion cools. Soon Dennis is joined by new employee Gary (Gene Raymond) and his classy but high-strung wife, Barbara (Mary Astor), who falls into Dennis' arms while her husband is away. When Vantine returns, Dennis must decide between the refined adulteress and the tramp with the heart of gold.
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Nell Minow Movie Mom Smoldering. Rated: 4/5 Aug 2, 2005 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews ...a relentlessly hit-and-miss endeavor that is, for the most part, more the latter than the former. Rated: 2/4 Jul 23, 2023 Full Review Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand ... as sexy, frank, and grown-up as pre-code cinema gets. Dec 3, 2022 Full Review Pare Lorentz Vanity Fair Red Dust is lusty and fresh. May 20, 2019 Full Review Scott Nash Three Movie Buffs Gable, Harlow and a Rain Barrel. You don't need anything else. Rated: 3/4 Aug 14, 2010 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 4/5 Aug 5, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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TheAsteri1 Gable was bigger than life on and off screen. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/02/24 Full Review Steve D Despite a slow start and some racist elements the stars make it worth your time. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/05/23 Full Review James F A must watch film. Hollywood at its best with adult situations in pre Coded censorship. Jean Harlow is brilliant and Gable shows his Macho sexuality but with an intelligence which later stars could only imitate with self conscious ticks … Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando respectively. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/19/23 Full Review Russ G Gable and Harlow burn down the theatre in this pre-Hayes Code sizzler. First saw this on the TV weekend late show about 1976. Two decades later the King of Hollywood would reprise the role, this time as the Great White Hunter on safari in Africa, with Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner as the other two corners of the love triangle. It's hard to beat the original, and this is a showpiece of Hollywood's Golden Age. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member The film is set on a rubber plantation in present day Vietnam providing a view into the French colonial rubber business. The film was ok and the plot was familiar but it was done so expertly it almost overcomes the basic scrip and the familiar hot love in the tropics theme. Mary Astor was mediocre but Gable and Harlow were excellent. It is something of an anomaly in that it's everything you don't expect from the most conservative of studious. It's rough, brief, to the point, and gleefully trashy. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review william d Gable and Harlowe smolder, the story does not. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis When earthy prostitute Vantine (Jean Harlow) arrives at Dennis Carson's (Clark Gable) rubber plantation in Indochina, she initiates a steamy affair with the rugged foreman, but is sent packing when the passion cools. Soon Dennis is joined by new employee Gary (Gene Raymond) and his classy but high-strung wife, Barbara (Mary Astor), who falls into Dennis' arms while her husband is away. When Vantine returns, Dennis must decide between the refined adulteress and the tramp with the heart of gold.
Director
Victor Fleming
Screenwriter
John Lee Mahin
Distributor
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Co
Tomson Films
Genre
Romance
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 22, 1932, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 1, 2009
Runtime
1h 23m
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