Richard Barthelmess
Marvin Blake
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- 1932 · Drama · 1h 19m
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.
- (1.9K)
- Drama
- Michael Curtiz
- 1932-10-15
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 washed my ...
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 father dies, Marvin is put...
- (15)
- Tim Dirks
- Drama
- Michael Curtiz
THE CABIN IN THE COTTON (First National Pictures, 1932), directed by Michael Curtiz, stars Richard Barthelmess, one of the more popular leading men of the silent screen, in one of his finer movie offerings in the early talkie era.
Summaries. 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.
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Jan 22, 2016 · Richard Barthelmess stars as Marvin Blake, a young son of Deep South sharecroppers. His father works for a plantation owner named Norwood, who keeps the entire family out in the field, even demanding Marvin quit school to spend more time working off his father’s never ending debts.
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.
