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English. 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 film perhaps is best known for a line of dialogue spoken by a platinum-blonde Bette Davis in a Southern drawl -- "I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just ...
- October 15, 1932
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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- Drama
- Michael Curtiz
- 1932-10-15
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 an education. When his ...
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- Tim Dirks
- Drama
- Michael Curtiz
Cabin in the Cotton would be one of Barthelmess' final films as a star, although he would continue to appear in character roles for another decade. When Cabin in the Cotton was released, it was "that flashy, luminous newcomer Bette Davis" who took the acting honors, according to the critics.
- Michael Curtiz, Al Alborn, William Keighley
- Richard Barthelmess
A tenant farmer's son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owner's seductive daughter. Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance. While working in the general store he learns that the owner has been cheating his tenants. He is in love with owner's daughter ...
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Jan 22, 2016 · Cabin the Cotton: Man of Two Worlds “In many parts of the South today, there exists an endless dispute between the rich land-owners, known as planters, and the poor cotton pickers, known as tenants or ‘peckerwoods’.
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. Contains Davis's most famous line, “Ah'd love t'kiss you, but ah jes washed mah hair.” 77m/B VHS .
