if you could tolerate sexism and racism without taking them into account too seriously, you might emancipate yourself to indulge in the gable-harlow "red dust"....the mode of gable-harlow screen romances would be that the slicitous harlow desperately courts the handsome but crude...( read more)
A dynamite movie involving three screen legends: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, and Mary Astor. Gable is Denny Carson, who runs a rubber plantation in Indo-China with a tight fist. Along comes Lily Vantine (Ms. Harlow) who just lights up the screen with her explosive persona. Lily exp...( read more)
It's pretty much the same story as Mogambo. Clark Gable even played the same role in Mogambo as in this film, but I think I prefer Red Dust when I compare the two.
This is some old, old, old, OLD school cinema here. Back when a movie set had 2 people working it. the director and camera man.
Pretty funny I understand why everyone loved Clark Gable and Jean Harlowe movies. They were pure comedy together.
A damn fine piece of entertainment (miles better than the crap winner of the Best Picture Oscar that year, Grand Hotel), featuring the lovely and fresh, first platinum blonde and a very young Clark Gable that looked to die for. Oh, and there's boring Mary Astor too.
Twas okay...not much of a story ~ but well played!
I liked Jean Harlow best, v. fun to watch!
Don't get me wrong. I'm a big fan of Gable. One thing that I have a hard time with is that Gable was always hard on "the help" in his movies. In "Red Dust" he slaps around his plantation workers, which I always hated. That could be the reason why this movie hasn't made it to DVD yet. Perhaps this was a sign of the times or the attitudes of those days. Part of it was the kind of man's man that Hollywood wanted then.
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