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The Cabin in the Cotton is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay by Paul Green is based on the novel of the same title by Harry Harrison Kroll.
The Cabin in the Cotton: Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Jordan, Bette Davis, Hardie Albright. A tenant farmer's son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owner's seductive daughter.
Marvin Blake wants to rise from the hard life of tenant cotton farmers with education, but plantation owner Norwood resists the idea until his daughter Madge intercedes.
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Cabin in the Cotton. Young Marvin Blake (Richard Barthelmess) is the bright son of a poor tenant farmer in the American South, but he hopes to escape poverty by getting...
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The Cabin in the Cotton ★★½ 1932. Davis stars as a rich, ruthless Southern belle in this dated melodrama about sharecroppers. Barthelmess is cast as a poor sharecropper who is almost brought to ruin when he falls for the sexy Southern vamp.
Jan 22, 2016 · Cabin in the Cotton remains one of the most interesting pre-Code melodramas from Warners as it seeks not to assign simple blame, but to deliver a message that the problems were more than one man on one plantation. They were endemic to a massive, horrifying world that was slavery in everything but name.
