Sadie Thompson (1928) + Rain (1932) + Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. (1946) + Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) on DVD

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Sadie Thompson (1928)

Starring Gloria Swanson, Lionel Barrymore, Raoul Walsh, James A. Marcus, Blanche Friderici
Directed by Raoul Walsh

Print: black/white
Runtime: 96 min.
Genre: Drama

This first film version of Somerset Maugham's classic story "Miss Thompson" featured the creative talents of Gloria Swanson, Lionel Barrymore, Raoul Walsh, art director William Cameron Menzies and cameramen George Barnes and Oliver Marsh, at the height of their careers. Swanson and Barnes were nominated for Oscars, in the first year of the Academy Awards. Sadie Thompson proved to be a landmark of the silent era. Perhaps, its greatest achievement was the film's uncompromising translation of Maugham's controversial story of a San Francisco prostitute and a South Pacific reformer. Swanson correctly maintained that the film's silence was its greatest asset, for the churches and Hays office could not censor what they couldn't hear. The tragedy of Sadie Thompson is that, for many decades, the last scenes were missing from the sole existing print. In this 1987 restoration by Kino International, the final minutes have been carefully recreated, using the original script, the star's own collection of stills, film footage where appropriate, and an orchestral score commissioned for the completed film. Neglected and forgotten over the years, Sadie Thompson has emerged as an important triumph in the silent era, and Swanson's greatest performance ever.

Rain (1932)

Starring Frederic Howard, Ben Hendricks, William Gargan, Mary Shaw, Guy Kibbee
Directed by Lewis Milestone

Print: black/white
Runtime: 94 min.
Genre: Drama

 
Joan Crawford, Walter Huston. While stranded on a South Seas island, an intensely righteous preacher tries to cure a voluptuous prostitute of her sinful ways while trying to suppress his own lust for her. 1932/b&w/94 min/NR/fullscreen.

Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. (1946)


Starring Francine Everett, Don Wilson, Katherine Moore, Alfred Hawkins, David Boykin
Directed by Spencer Williams

Print: black/white
Runtime: 68 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

An all-black Caribbean island resort welcomes flashy dancer Gertie La Rue, forced to 
perform in this remote spot because she two-timed Al, her Harlem lover and backer, once 
too often. As Gertie amuses herself by dazzling the local men with her sex appeal, 
sanctimonious Mr. Christian (shades of 'Rain') schemes to either reform her or have her 
thrown off the island. On opening night, her sensuous performance exceeds Christian's 
worst fears...but more serious trouble awaits.

Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)


Starring Rita Hayworth, Jose Ferrer, Aldo Ray, Russell Collins, Diosa Costello
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt

Print: black/white
Runtime: 90 min.
Genre: Drama

 
A dynamic young woman ends up at a marine base in American Samoa and gets the blood boiling of every soldier, as well as a missionary man who thinks she's trouble.