Thursday, February 25, 2010

Red dust (1932)

Red dust is a romance story starring Cary Grant & Jean Harlow. I must say it is an unabashedly racist movie (giggling Orientals! lazy Orientals!). "Well, it was made during the thirties" is absolutely no excuse. It's also a movie that, due to its content, probably would have ended up in the censor's waste bin a few decades later. The setting is a rubber plantation in French Indo-China. The main characters are the manager, who is the hot-headed type, a prostitute/"adventurer", a newcomer engineer and his wife. The story might have appeared alluring to its contemporaries but it's nothing to write home about, really.

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