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The Cabin in the Cotton: Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Jordan, Bette Davis, Hardie Albright. A tenant farmer's son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owner's seductive daughter.
Harry Harrison Kroll. Novel. Paul Green. Screenplay. Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.
The film was Cabin in the Cotton (1932), one of nine films Davis appeared in that year. Playing the lead was Richard Barthelmess, who'd made a career of playing aw-shucks country boys in silent films.
- Michael Curtiz, Al Alborn, William Keighley
- Richard Barthelmess
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) is director Michael Curtiz' pre-Code social melodrama about social injustice, adapted with a screenplay by Paul Green of Henry Harrison Kroll's 1931 novel Cabin in the Cotton - a diatribe against the exploitation of sharecroppers by wealthy southern landowners.
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The Cabin in the Cotton ★★½ 1932 Davis stars as a rich, ruthless Southern belle in this dated melodrama about sharecroppers. Barthelmess is cast as a poor sharecropper who is almost brought to ruin when he falls for the sexy Southern vamp.
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) In director Michael Curtiz' pre-Code social melodrama about social injustice, adapted with a screenplay by Paul Green of Henry Harrison Kroll's 1931 novel Cabin in the Cotton - it provided a diatribe against the exploitation of sharecroppers by wealthy southern landowners:
