Description

Rain is a 1932 in film South Seas (genre) drama film directed by Lewis Milestone with portions filmed at Santa Catalina Island, California. The film stars Joan Crawford as prostitute Sadie Thompson and features Walter Huston as a conflicted missionary who wants to orm Sadie, but whose own morals start decaying. Crawford was loaned out by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to United Artists for this film.

The plot of the film is based on the 1923 play Rain by John Colton (screenwriter) and Clemence Randolph, which in turn was based on the short story “Miss Thompson” (later retitled “Rain”) by W. Somerset Maugham. Actress Jeanne Eagels had played the role on stage. Other movie versions of the story include: a 1928 in film silent film titled Sadie Thompson starring Gloria Swanson, and the heavily sanitized Miss Sadie Thompson (1953), which starred Rita Hayworth.

In 1960, the film entered the List of films in the public domain in the United States due to the copyright claimants failure to renew the copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.

Cast

• Fred Howard as Hodgson
• Ben Hendricks Jr. as Griggs
• William Gargan as Sergeant Tim O’Hara
• Mary Shaw as Ameena
• Guy Kibbee as Joe Horn
• Kendall Lee as Mrs Robert MacPhail
• Beulah Bondi as Mrs Alfred Davidson
• Matt Moore (actor) as Dr Robert MacPhail
• Walter Huston as Alfred Davidson
• Walter Catlett as Quartermaster Bates
• Joan Crawford as Sadie Thompson