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About
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.
Theatrical
Oct 12, 1932
DVD / Blu-ray
Oct 26, 1999
Director
Writers
Producers
Music
Studio
Feature Productions, United Artists
Keywords
missionary
prostitute
rain
deluge
quarantine
remake
pacific island
religious fundamentalism
religious hypocrisy
pre-code
based on short story
u.s. marine
persecution
record player
south sea island
samoa
moral reformation
general store
reformer
tropics
fallen woman
christian missionary
public domain
rainy setting
Cast
Full credits →J
Joan Crawford
Sadie Thompson
W
Walter Huston
Alfred Davidson
M
Matt Moore
Dr. Robert MacPhail
G
Guy Kibbee
Joe Horn
W
William Gargan
Sergeant Tim O'Hara
B
Beulah Bondi
Mrs. Davidson
K
Kendall Lee
Mrs. MacPhail
F
Fred Howard
Hodgson
B
Ben Hendricks Jr.
Griggs
M
Mary Shaw
Ameena
W
Walter Catlett
Quartermaster Bates
