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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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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.
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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...Oct 15, 2001 · Directed by Michael Curtiz, who would go on to direct Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mildred Pierce and many other classic movies, Cabin In the Cotton is a true potboiler. The drama never wavers from start to finish.
The film was Cabin in the Cotton (1932), one of nine films Davis appeared in that year. Playing the lead was Richard Barthelmess, who'd made a career of playing aw-shucks country boys in silent films.
- Michael Curtiz, Al Alborn, William Keighley
- Richard Barthelmess
Jan 19, 2008 · Cabin in the Cotton (1932) is the story of the struggle between landowners and their farming tenants in the rural South, and is most notable for Bette Davis' early role as Madge Norwood, the beautiful blonde daughter of a wealthy, corrupt landowner.
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.
