Of human bondage. Rain

Two Somerset Maugham novels, which became classic films are here presented on one video. In “Of human bondage” Bette Davis made her name as a cheap and vulgar cafe waitress who taunts and ridicules a besotted Leslie Howard, as a crippled professor. Joan Crawford stars in “Rain” as the bad girl Sadie Thompson who attracts the fanatic obsessions of a missionary, which leads to her spiritual reformation. Set during an epidemic on South Sea Pago Pago island, the film caused much controversy on its release.

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Credits

production company

RKO Radio Pictures

United Artists

Art Cinema Corporation

co-producer

Pandro S. Berman

Joseph Schenck

co-director

John Cromwell

Lewis Milestone

Duration

03:00:00:00

Production places

United States

Production dates

1934

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

303985

Language

English

Audience classification

PG

Subject categories

Adaptations

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - United States

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Epidemics

Literature → English literature - Film and video adaptations

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Black and White

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Wikidata

Q1164789

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United States, 1934

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