Red Dust (1932)

Directors

Victor Fleming

Cast

Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor, Gene Raymond, Tully Marshall

The story

left|thumb|200px|Mary Astor and Clark Gable in Red Dust On a rubber plantation in French Indochina during the monsoon season, the plantation's owner/manager Dennis Carson (Gable), a prostitute named Vantine (Harlow), and Barbara Willis (Astor), the wife of engineer Gary Willis (Gene Raymond) are involved in a love triangle. Dennis abandons an informal relationship with Vantine to pursue Barbara, but has a change of heart and returns to Vantine. This all unspools against the backdrop of racial and labor tension with local workers ("coolies"), overseer Guidon's drunkenness, a roaming tiger, frequent wind and rain, and servant Hoy (Fung)…

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