Richard Barthelmess
Marvin Blake
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A 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Richard Barthelmess and Bette Davis. The film is based on a novel by Harry Harrison Kroll and features a famous line by Davis: "I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just washed my hair."
A 1932 drama film about the conflict between cotton plantation owners and tenants in the South. Starring Richard Barthelmess and Bette Davis, directed by Michael Curtiz, with trivia, reviews, and soundtrack information.
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- Drama
- Michael Curtiz
- 1932-10-15
After Southern tenant farmer Tom Blake dies, Lane Norwood, the owner of the cotton plantation, puts Tom's son Marvin through school, later hiring him to work in his store.
- Michael Curtiz, Al Alborn, William Keighley
- Richard Barthelmess
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.
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- Michael Curtiz
- Tim Dirks
- Richard Barthelmess
- Proof That It’S Pre-Code
- Cabin The Cotton: Man of Two Worlds
- Trivia & Links
- Awards, Accolades & Availability
“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...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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