Red Dust

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7.6	Rating (31 ratings)
7.2	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Victor Fleming

Starring

Clark Gable
Dennis Carson

Jean Harlow
Vantine

Gene Raymond
Gary Willis

Mary Astor
Barbara Willis

Donald Crisp
Guidon

Tully Marshall
McQuarg

Forrester Harvey
Limey

Willie Fung
Hoy

Written by

John Lee Mahin

Donald Ogden Stewart
additional writer

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Red Dust

8 years, 4 months ago at Jan 3 4:20

JxSxPx

One of the defining traits of the studio era was that each of the major studios, and most of the minors, had a consistent house style. Warner Brothers was unafraid to rip from the seedy headlines, to get down and dirty, while 20th Century Fox favored biographical films and large-scale musicals. Then there was MGM, the studio of immense budgets and even larger glamour. They weren’t exactly known ... read more

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The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.

Release date: 22 October 1932

Tags: Romance (4), Drama (4), Plantation (3), Drunkenness (2), Gunfire (2), Fistfight (2), Tiger (2), Rubber Plantation (2), 1932 (2), Pre-code (2), Prostitute (2), Storm (2), Marriage (2), Malaria (2), Infidelity (2), Jealousy (2), Platinum Blonde (1), Rubber (1), Jean Harlow (1), Mgm (1)

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Taste of Cinema's Essential Pre-Code Hollywood (30 movies items)

"A rubber plantation is the setting for a love triangle that involves the estate’s virile owner (Clark Gable), a likeable prostitute (Jean Harlow) and a refined married lady ( Mary Astor). Red Dust is arguably the most erotic film of the period and it’s commonly pointed as one of the best examples of the audacity of those involved in the making of the Pre-Code films. Drinking, adultery , prostitution and strong women characters, it has it all. The acting is good, as one can gather from the f"