SADIE THOMPSON
Special Features: Silent with live musical accompaniment by Makia Matsumura; intro by Mike Mashon, Head of the Moving Image Section at the Library of Congress
San Francisco prostitute Sadie Thompson (Gloria Swanson, Oscar®-nominated in the award's inaugural year) leaves the City by the Bay to start a new life on an island in the South Pacific. Independent and high-spirited, Sadie unapologetically enjoys the company of men, including "entertaining" a Marine detachment stationed nearby, eventually falling in love with Sgt. Tim O'Hara (director Raoul Walsh, in his final acting performance). But sanctimonious missionary worker Alfred Davidson (Lionel Barrymore) can't abide Sadie's unrepentant hedonism, and under the threat of exposure to the law, coerces her conversion. But Davidson's no saint himself. Adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's short story "Miss Sadie Thompson," scandalously and successfully adapted on Broadway as "Rain," also the title of the 1932 sound version starring Joan Crawford. DIR/SCR/PROD Raoul Walsh; SCR C. Gardner Sullivan, from "Rain" by John Colton and Clemence Randolph and "Miss Sadie Thompson" by W. Somerset Maugham; PROD Gloria Swanson. U.S., 1928, b&w, 97 min. NOT RATED
No AFI Member passes accepted.
35mm print
Run Time: 97 Minutes
Opening Date: Sunday, April 21, 2019
Genre: Romance drama
