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The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.
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- Victor Fleming(uncredited)
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- TriviaDuring filming of the famous rain-barrel sequence, Jean Harlow reportedly stood up--topless--and called out something along the lines of "one for the boys in the lab!" Director Victor Fleming allegedly removed the film from the camera to prevent any footage from reaching the black market.
- GoofsWhen Clark Gable and Gene Raymond are in the tree while hunting, after the line: 'This would be a bad country to raise children in, wouldn't it?' the cloud in the background changes dramatically.
- Quotes
Barbara Willis: [watching the workers pouring liquid rubber] Why, it's milk.
Dennis Carson: Oh no, just rubber. But you could drink it if you care to stretch a point.
Barbara Willis: Oh, I once knew a man who made a joke like that. He was run over by a truck.
Dennis Carson: Were you driving it?
Barbara Willis: Yes!
Dennis Carson: Well, you're out of luck here. We only have ox-carts and every ox knows me personally.
- ConnectionsEdited into Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
Featured review
Gable, Harlow and Astor make for one good film
A pretty good movie. Red Dust is one of the films that made Clark Gable a star and it's easy to see why. In it, he plays the kind of likable rogue character that audiences would come to know him as. Gable is Dennis Carson, the operator of a rubber plantation in Indochina, who is all business until his world is turned upside down by two women. First Vantine Jefferson (Jean Harlow), a prostitute looking for a place to lie low arrives. Then a prospector and his wife, Barbara (Mary Astor), show up at the plantation. Both women are unwelcome intruders into Carson's world at first, but soon they each end up igniting his desire. Fooling around with the floozy Vantine is easy, but things get complicated when Carson's eye falls on the married Barbara. With his more than questionable actions, any other actor might have been completely unlikeable in the role, but Gable somehow pulls it off. Harlow and Astor also give very good performances. It helps that the heavy subject matter and brash duologue, adapted from a stage play, was not watered down too much for the screen version. Definitely a well made film worth seeing.
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- km_dickson
- Sep 9, 2005
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- Crvena prašina
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- $408,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 23 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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