Red Dust

August 28th, 2008



Red Dust

Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Romance
Release Year: 1932
Country: USA
Runtime: 83
Rating: 6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Victor Fleming
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
  • LOVE OR LUNACY? Its the wild cry of a "girl-crazy" cowboy...but one clear-eyed daughter of the west ropes and ties him!
  • The Big Musical with Broadway Flair and a Western Air!

  • Writing by: Wilson Collison - (play)
    John Lee Mahin - (screenplay) (as John Mahin)
    Donald Ogden Stewart - (additional writer) uncredited

    Produced by: Hunt Stromberg - producer (uncredited)
    Irving Thalberg - producer (uncredited)

    Cast: 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

    Music: David Raksin
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    Plot Outline: The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.
    Plot: Conditions are spartan on Dennis Carsons Indochina rubber plantation during a dusty dry monsoon. The latest boat upriver brings Carson an unwelcome guest: Vantine, a floozy from Saigon, hoping to evade the police by a stay upcountry. But Carson, initially uninterested, soon succumbs to Vantines ostentatious charms...until the arrival of surveyor Gary Willis, ill with malaria, and his refined but sensuous wife Barbara. Now the rains begin, and passion flows like water...

    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    The end credits show what happen to the real people portrayed in the film.

    Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Continuity: When the horse with Gable’s son runs away. the child is originally on the right side of the horse. The succeeding shot shows him on the left side of the horse. Later shots show him back on the right side.

    Trivia: There are 7 entries in the trivia list - like these:
    • Clark Gable also starred in the 1953 remake Mogambo (1953).
    • Jean Harlows famous rain-barrel bath is recreated in her film Bombshell (1933).
    • Jean Harlows husband of two months, producer Paul Bern, committed suicide during the Labor Day break in the production. Although she was absent for 10 days following his death, scenes were shot around her and the movie was completed on schedule.


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