Red Dust

"She fought for her mate with a tigress' fury…"

Oct 22 1932 Passed 1h 23m
Drama, Romance

Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives along with his refined wife Dennis is quickly infatuated by her.

Plot

Conditions are spartan on Dennis Carson's Indochina rubber plantation during a dusty dry monsoon. The latest boat upriver brings Carson an unwelcome guest: Vantine, a floozy from Saigon, hoping to evade the police by a stay upcountry. But Carson, initially uninterested, soon succumbs to Vantine's ostentatious charms...until the arrival of surveyor Gary Willis, ill with malaria, and his refined but sensuous wife Barbara. Now the rains begin, and passion flows like water...

Written by

John Lee Mahin, Wilson Collison, Donald Ogden Stewart

Directed by

Victor Fleming

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Languages

English

Awards

1 win

Scores
# of Votes
5,108
Average Rating
7.2 out of 10
Metascore
66
Popularity
NA