6.8
Princesses
2005
“A woman without shame. A woman without soul.”
Rain (1932)
October 12, 19321h 34mEN
6.6
58 votes
Overview
Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it incessantly rains. Among the stranded passengers are Sadie Thompson, a prostitute, and Alfred Davidson, a fanatic missionary who will try to redeem her.
Director
Lewis MilestoneWhere to Watch
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Free
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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N/A
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Production Companies
Feature ProductionsUnited Artists
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User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7.0There are times in this film when I could quite cheerfully have hung Walter Huston's "Davidson" from the yardarm... Joan Crawford is "Sadie Thompson" - a prostitute merrily plying her trades on a South Pacific island with the visiting American troops. The arrival of the seriously puritanical "Davidson" couple - Huston and wife Beulah Bondi - soon puts a cramp in her style, though. Their shock and disgust at this slatternly behaviour leads them to try to get her deported back to America (where she has a bit of a wicked past), ostensibly in a bid to save her moral soul. Crawford is super as the…
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