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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.
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- Michael Curtiz
- 1932-10-15
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“That girl ain’t got a bit of a soul, she ain’t. But she sure got a body. Some body.”A fade out hints that Madge slipped into something a bit more comfortable.There’s a crawl at the beginning of Cabin in the Cotton; usually, for this era, that’s a good sign. You’d catch similar crawls before fare like Beast of the City and Scarface, carefully worded prologues that make it very, explicitly clear that the filmmakers aren’t trying to upset anyone, especially anyone who could possibly censor the movie. Readi...
Unsurprisingly, the only people who talk about this movie are there for Bette Davis (Related: there are some spectacularly bad reviews out there for this one. Like, I know Bette Davis is in the mov...
This film is now available in Warner Archive’s Forbidden Hollywood, Volume 9 which you can pick up at Amazon. (Please note: the screenshots here are from an old TCM copy. I’ll update it when my DVD...Cabin in the Cotton. 1932 1h 19m Drama CTA List. Tomatometer 1 Reviews 67% Popcornmeter 250+ Ratings. Young Marvin Blake (Richard Barthelmess) is the bright son of a poor tenant farmer in the...
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- Michael Curtiz
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- Richard Barthelmess
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.
1932 Johnny Hamp - Cabin In The Cotton (Charles Socci, vocal) - YouTube. The78Prof. 64.1K subscribers. Subscribed. 183. 8.4K views 2 years ago. The 1932 song hit was also recorded by Bing...
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The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) is director Michael Curtiz' pre-Code social melodrama about social injustice, adapted with a screenplay by Paul Green of Henry Harrison Kroll's 1931 novel Cabin in the Cotton - a diatribe against the exploitation of sharecroppers by wealthy southern landowners.
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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.
