Customer Reviews:
Great Film, Incredible Joan Crawford, Poor DVD.......2007-09-17
I'll be honest; I mainly wanted this film just to see the incredibly young and beautiful Joan Crawford dolled up to the max as a 1930's hooker. And because of the film's great age a less than perfect print was only to be expected.
I wasn't at all disappointed with Joan and was also pleasantly surprised to find the story itself very absorbing and watchable too.
However the print used here is appalingly bad, so much so that the sound disappears completely for about ten minutes at a time in places, which a glitch too far, unfortunately.
Its a shame I had to return such a great film and now have to try and find a better print! Mind you, she really was fantastic...
Customer Reviews:
JOAN CRAWFORD AS A SULTRY SOUTH SEAS SIREN..........2005-02-15
This 1932 vintage film has a young Joan Crawford in the role of the notorious Sadie Thompson, a sultry South Seas siren. Walter Huston is compelling as the fire and brimstone preacher who wants to run this fallen woman out of town on a rail. Beulah Bondi is excellent as the preacher's prudish wife whose sensibilities are upset by Sadie Thompson's very presence in the small, cramped South Seas island hotel where they are all staying. Seeking to save Sadie's soul, the preacher manages to brow beat Sadie into repentant submission to his will, only to be done in at the last by his own answer to the call of the wild.
This is an interesting film that shows the idiosyncrasies of earlier talkies. Look for some odd camera shots used in order to segue into the next scene. Listen to the pounding of the torrential rain that can be heard almost throughout the entire film (hence, its name). Listen to the beat of the native drums, working to set a mood when necessary. All in all, a very well done film for its time. Joan Crawford fans will love it, as will all lovers of vintage films.
Crawford mesmerises!.......2004-04-24
An astonishingly compelling show from Joan Crawford in a role unlikeanything else she made in the 1930's and certainly a far cry from theultra glamorous "clothes horse" image which she had established at MGM.
This film fascinates on many levels and serves as more than acuriosity piece.
Customer Reviews:
JOAN CRAWFORD AS A SULTRY SOUTH SEAS SIREN..........2005-02-15
This 1932 vintage film has a young Joan Crawford in the role of the notorious Sadie Thompson, a sultry South Seas siren. Walter Huston is compelling as the fire and brimstone preacher who wants to run this fallen woman out of town on a rail. Beulah Bondi is excellent as the preacher's prudish wife whose sensibilities are upset by Sadie Thompson's very presence in the small, cramped South Seas island hotel where they are all staying. Seeking to save Sadie's soul, the preacher manages to brow beat Sadie into repentant submission to his will, only to be done in at the last by his own answer to the call of the wild.
This is an interesting film that shows the idiosyncrasies of earlier talkies. Look for some odd camera shots used in order to segue into the next scene. Listen to the pounding of the torrential rain that can be heard almost throughout the entire film (hence, its name). Listen to the beat of the native drums, working to set a mood when necessary. All in all, a very well done film for its time. Joan Crawford fans will love it, as will all lovers of vintage films.
Crawford mesmerises!.......2004-04-24
An astonishingly compelling show from Joan Crawford in a role unlikeanything else she made in the 1930's and certainly a far cry from theultra glamorous "clothes horse" image which she had established at MGM.
This film fascinates on many levels and serves as more than acuriosity piece.
Customer Reviews:
JOAN CRAWFORD AS A SULTRY SOUTH SEAS SIREN..........2005-02-15
This 1932 vintage film has a young Joan Crawford in the role of the notorious Sadie Thompson, a sultry South Seas siren. Walter Huston is compelling as the fire and brimstone preacher who wants to run this fallen woman out of town on a rail. Beulah Bondi is excellent as the preacher's prudish wife whose sensibilities are upset by Sadie Thompson's very presence in the small, cramped South Seas island hotel where they are all staying. Seeking to save Sadie's soul, the preacher manages to brow beat Sadie into repentant submission to his will, only to be done in at the last by his own answer to the call of the wild.
This is an interesting film that shows the idiosyncrasies of earlier talkies. Look for some odd camera shots used in order to segue into the next scene. Listen to the pounding of the torrential rain that can be heard almost throughout the entire film (hence, its name). Listen to the beat of the native drums, working to set a mood when necessary. All in all, a very well done film for its time. Joan Crawford fans will love it, as will all lovers of vintage films.
Crawford mesmerises!.......2004-04-24
An astonishingly compelling show from Joan Crawford in a role unlikeanything else she made in the 1930's and certainly a far cry from theultra glamorous "clothes horse" image which she had established at MGM.
This film fascinates on many levels and serves as more than acuriosity piece.
DVD:
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- Resurrection [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
- Roy Rogers - Vol. 1 [1951]
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- Second Chorus [1940]
- Serial Killers: Real Life Hannibal Lecters [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
- Sherlock Holmes - The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes [1939]
- Slaughter of the Vampires [1962]
- Steamboat Bill Jr [1928]
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