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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 ...
- 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
Synopsis. 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. The other sharecroppers suspect that Marvin is now on the side of the owners, but Marvin is torn between his loyalty to his family and his gratitude to Norwood.
- Michael Curtiz, Al Alborn, William Keighley
- Richard Barthelmess
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. 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 · What’s surprising about Cabin in the Cotton, though, is that unlike a lot of other of the Warner Bros. movies that tackles social injustice, both sides are pretty detestable. It’s the system that’s broken. Director Curtiz captures Barthelmess framed behind symbolic bars several times in the picture.
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.
