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Red Dust
Overview
Two of Hollywood's most colorful and dynamic personalities, Clark Gable and Jean Harlow, were teamed up to create this outrageous romantic dramedy. Gable plays a hard-hitting plantation foreman brutalized by his own effort to survive the deadly heat of the tropics. The platinum blonde Harlow plays a Saigon hussy with her eyes set on the macho Gable. When the wife of a plantation engineer gains Gable's affections, Harlow digs in for a fight. Sizzling love scenes, spectacular backgrounds, and realistic characterization make RED DUST an unforgettable classic.
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Main Cast & Crew:
Victor Fleming - Director
Clark Gable
Jean Harlow
Gene Raymond
Mary Astor
Donald Crisp
Tully Marshall
Forrester Harvey
Willie Fung
Details
- Format: DVD (Manufactured on Demand, Full Frame, Mono Sound)
- Run Time: 83
- Color Format: Color
- UPC: 883316649381
- Genre: DRAMA
- Rating: NR
- Release Date: October 2012
Movie Reviews
Synopsis:
In RED DUST, sparks fly between Hollywood legends Jean Harlow and Clark Gable as bombshell Harlow perfected her saucy, passionate, comic persona while manly man Gable solidified his position as Tinseltown's most desirable romantic lead. Gable's Dennis Carson manages a rubber plantation in Indochina. When Harlow's golden-hearted prostitute, Vantine, arrives on the scene, Carson attempts to pay her for her honest affections. The offended Vantine departs as Carson's new engineer, Gary Willis (Gene Raymond), arrives with his ladylike wife, Barbara (Mary Astor). Willis catches malaria, and Carson and Barbara nurse him and an illicit affair to health. Vantine returns to the plantation and can't get over Carson's preference for the colorless, feminine Mrs. Willis. Carson attempts to tell Willis about the affair but fails when he realizes the depth of Willis's love for Barbara. Vantine convinces Carson that Barbara can't handle the tropics, forcing Carson to finally recognize which girl is his Ms. Right, and leaving Carson in a bind as to how to return Barbara's affections to her husband. Beyond the wonderful performances and superb sets, RED DUST offers a reexamination of Victorian women's stereotypes whose reverberations continue to be felt.
Notes:
Released as a double feature with MATA HARI, RED DUST broke all the box-office records of its day.
Victor Fleming managed to persuade a reluctant Clark Gable to take a role that would greatly advance his career. Observers on the set felt that Gable's character was a quick, expert study of Fleming's own macho persona.
The film was remade in 1940 as CONGO MAISIE, and in 1953 it was remade again as MOGAMBO, starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, and Grace Kelly.
Reviews:
"It's lovely, scratchy, mannered pulp, like its characters teetering on the edge of propriety..." - 02/01/2013 Sight and Sound
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