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Red Dust is the second of six movies Clark Gable and Jean Harlow made together. As usual, he plays a rugged man's man whose devilishly sexy good looks and deep-rooted gallantry make him irresistible to women; she, a tough, no-nonsense broad with a smart mouth, champagne hair, a body that won't quit, and a heart of mush. Their presence elevates this otherwise melodramatic soaper to the rank of classic. Directed by Victor Fleming (who, at Gable's insistence, took over the direction of Gone With the Wind from George Cukor), it definitely bears Fleming's macho mark.
Dennis Carson (Gable) runs a Southeast Asian rubber plantation. Vantine, a 'woman of easy virtue' (Harlow), drifts into camp looking for a place to evade the law. One look at Dennis and she falls, hard. Her incessant chatter drives him nuts--and out of sheer impudence she insists on calling him 'Fred'--but she finally wears him down. 'You talk too much, but you're a cute little trick at that,' he grins, pulling her onto his lap as the camera cuts away...
Then Dennis falls for Babs Willis (Mary Astor), the genteel wife of visiting surveyor Gary Willis (Gene Raymond). (The couple arrives at the dangerous, ramshackle camp with tennis rackets.) Babs can't help but succumb to Dennis's raw masculine power. Come the monsoons, he carries her in out of the rain. Their ensuing first kiss is one hot movie moment--and her a married woman! Of course this can't last: Gable and Harlow have to end up together. Dennis takes pity on Gary and abandons his plan to run away with Babs. 'I've been noble,' he tells Vantine, taking her in his arms. 'Well, it's about time!' she replies. --Laura Mirsky
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Rating:  - "I once knew a man who made a joke like that. He was run over by a truck."
Imagine the lush heat of the jungle and the brutish, sex-starved men that live there. All that heat is present in Red Dust, the story of the manager of a rubber plantation (Clark Gable) and his lust for a prostitute (Jean Harlow) and a society wife (Mary Astor). This is heady stuff for the early 30s, but thankfully plenty passed by the lax censorship of the pre-code era. We've got it all with adultery, a bathing scene, and gunfire.
Besides the racy story, Red Dust has the benefit of ... Read More
Rating:  - When the overall outcome of performances leaves behind a hackneyed script!
"Red dust" was the film that launched tp Clark Gable to the stardom. Two years later he would be awarded with "It happened one night".
Because, despite an uninspired plot, Mary Astor as the naïve woman with whom Gable dallies, until he returns into the rams of his beloved couple (the well reminded Jean Harlow) .
This primary, expected and outdated and hackneyed argument is however, satisfyingly well done thanks to these admirable, fresh and natural performances. ... Read More
Rating: - Blissful combo of great stars! LOVED IT!
Loved this movie - Clark Gable literally smolders! Exotic locale and gorgeous starlets - what more could old movie fans want? Cant wait for this to come out on DVD!!!
Rating: - My favorite Gable movie
Crackling great script by John Lee Mahin, a swaggering young Gable and Harlow practically falling out of her costume. One of the best (yet least acknowledged) pre-Code hot house dramas of the thirties, about a sordid love triangle unfolding in the Indonesian jungle. Later remade by Gable, with a big budget but half the brains, as Mogambo. Gable and Harlow are having too much fun in this one.
Rating: - Pure Magnetism!
"Red Dust" is a 1932 offering from MGM starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in their second film pairing together, and in my opinion, their best.
Gable is Dennis Carson, the owner of a rubber plantation in Indochina, who is a big, burly man's man. He becomes infatuated with Vantine Jefferson (Harlow), a Saigon prostitute making a stopover on the rubber plantation while hiding out from the Saigon authorities and who rather likes being the sole female on the plantation. While it's obvious that ... Read More
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