Red Dust
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Red Dust (1932), Directed by Victor Fleming, is the second of six movies Clark Gable and Jean Harlow made together. It was produced in the Pre-Code era of Hollywood.
Plot
Conditions are spartan on Dennis Carson's (Gable) Indochina rubber plantation during a dusty dry monsoon. The latest boat upriver brings Carson an unwelcome guest: Vantine (Harlow), a floozy from Saigon, hoping to evade the police by a stay upcountry. But Carson, initially uninterested, soon succumbs to Vantine's ostensible charms...until the arrival of surveyor Gary Willis (Gene Raymond), ill with malaria, and his refined but sensuous wife Barbara (Mary Astor). Now the rains begin, and passion flows like water...Red Dust was remade in 1953 as Mogambo, this time set in Africa, with Ava Gardner in the Harlow role and Grace Kelly playing Astor's part. Clark Gable returned, twenty-one years later, to play the same character.
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