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Overview

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Director:
Curtis Bernhardt
Writers:
Harry Kleiner (writer)
W. Somerset Maugham (story)
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Release Date:
23 December 1953 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Musical | Romance more
Tagline:
RITA TURNS ON THE HEAT IN 3D (original print ad - all caps) more
Plot:
At a lonely military outpost on American Samoa, sticky heat alternates with torrential rain. A ship quarantine strands here Sadie Thompson... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
User Comments:
Poor Sadie more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Rita Hayworth ... Sadie Thompson
José Ferrer ... Alfred Davidson (as Jose Ferrer)
Aldo Ray ... Sgt. Phil O'Hara
Russell Collins ... Dr. Robert MacPhail
Diosa Costello ... Ameena Horn
Harry Bellaver ... Joe Horn
Wilton Graff ... Governor
Peggy Converse ... Mrs. Margaret Davidson
Henry Slate ... Pvt. Griggs
Rudy Bond ... Pvt. Hodges

Charles Bronson ... Pvt. Edwards (as Charles Buchinsky)
Frances Morris ... Mrs. MacPhail
Peter Chong ... Chung
John Grossett ... Preacher
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Rain (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
91 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.75 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
3 Channel Stereo
Certification:
UK:12 (DVD rating) (2005) | UK:A (original rating) (1954) (cut) | Australia:M (original rating) | Australia:PG (cable rating) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #16538, Adult Audience) | West Germany:16
Filming Locations:
Kaua`i, Hawaii, USA

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The hotel that W. Somerset Maugham stayed at in American Samoa (the model for Trader Horn's) still stands, but for years has been a general store. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Sergeant O'Hara's shirt is wet with sweat as he leaves the radio tent but dry as he exits. more
Quotes:
Pvt. Edwards: What do you want me to do, evaporate? more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Rita Hayworth: The Columbia Lady (2000) (V) more
Soundtrack:
HEAR NO EVIL more

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
Poor Sadie, 2 September 2007
8/10
Author: selffamily from New Zealand

Poor Sadie - either way she had a tough deal of things. Having never seen the movie "rain" I cannot do a comparison, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. So... taken on its own merits, this is an OK movie, not the best, not the worst. Rita glimmers and gleams like gold in a desert when she arrives, and it spoke heaps for the moral code that did exist that she was able to flick away unwanted attention in those days, apart from the one person who wrote his own code of course. The preacher man with too much power was convincing, (and his snivelling wife), doing what most people with too much power do - becoming corrupted by his own invincibility. Although it appears that a man (any man) offering the sanctuary of married life was the solution to the world's problems, or at least Sadie's, part of me was hoping that she would be able to revert to her original plan and go to New Caledonia. Why she didn't just push Davidson off the cliff when they were talking? But it might have spoiled the story! Not a bad way to spend an hour or so... beautiful colour, interesting story and I suppose a happy ending?

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