The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)

Directors

Michael Curtiz

Cast

Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Jordan, Bette Davis, Hardie Albright, Berton Churchill, David Landau

The story

thumb|upright=1.2|Lobby card for The Cabin in the Cotton Marvin Blake is a sharecropper's son who wants to better himself by continued schooling instead of working in the fields under the heat in the Deep South. Initially, greedy planter Lane Norwood is opposed to the idea and says he needs to work in his fields, but after the sudden death of his over-worked father, he grudgingly helps Blake achieve his goal and gives the young man a job as a bookkeeper when his vampish daughter Madge intercedes on his behalf. Blake uncovers irregularities in Norwood's accounts and soon becomes embroiled in a battle between management and workers and torn…

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