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Sadie Thompson

1928 · 1h 37m · Drama, Romance · United States of America

Sadie could storm any barrack she attacked! Magnetism had never been heard of until she hit town! What a woman! You'll say so, too!

A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who is unfazed by her unsavory past. However, Mr. Davidson, a missionary who arrived on the island at the same time, aims to "save" Sadie from her sinful life and petitions to have her separated from her beau and deported back to San Francisco.

Directed by
Raoul Walsh
Story by
W. Somerset Maugham
Starring
Gloria Swanson, Lionel Barrymore, Blanche Friderici, Charles Lane
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