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Red Dust Overview:

Red Dust (1932) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by Victor Fleming (uncredited) and produced by Hunt Stromberg and Irving Thalberg.

SYNOPSIS

The second pairing of Gable and Harlow is a steamy potboiler set on an equally steamy Indochina rubber plantation. Plantation foreman Gable first woos wisecracking prostitute Harlow when she arrives by ship, then takes up with the wife of an engineer (Astor) after he puts Harlow on a steamer. When Harlow returns and wants Gable back, Astor flies into a murderously jealous rage. Tragedy struck the set when Harlow's husband, studio executive Paul Bern, committed suicide during production. MGM considered a substitute, but the public demanded to see Harlow on-screen. Remade as Mogambo, again with Gable, in 1953.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Red Dust was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2006.

Red Dust BlogHub Articles:

Mogambo (1953): John Ford Updates Red Dust

By 4 Star Film Fan on Aug 16, 2021 From 4 Star Films

Whether it’s apocryphal or not the term “Mogambo” is purported to be the Swahili word for “passion,” although it’s difficult to know if this was only hearsay propagated by westerners (now including myself). Regardless, it boasts an intriguing if altogether curious... Read full article

Red Dust (1932, Victor Fleming)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 1, 2019 From The Stop Button

I’m not sure how much would be different about Red Dust if the film weren’t so hideously racist, particularly when it comes to poor Willie Fung (as the houseboy), but at least it wouldn’t go out on such a nasty note. Especially since the finale, despite being contrived, at least plays to the f... Read full article

Red Dust (1932, Victor Fleming)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 1, 2019 From The Stop Button

I’m not sure how much would be different about Red Dust if the film weren’t so hideously racist, particularly when it comes to poor Willie Fung (as the houseboy), but at least it wouldn’t go out on such a nasty note. Especially since the finale, despite being contrived, at least plays to the f... Read full article

Red Dust (1932, Victor Fleming)

on Mar 1, 2019 From The Stop Button

I’m not sure how much would be different about Red Dust if the film weren’t so hideously racist, particularly when it comes to poor Willie Fung (as the houseboy), but at least it wouldn’t go out on such a nasty note. Especially since the finale, despite being contrived, at least plays to the f... Read full article

Red Dust (1932, Victor Fleming)

on Mar 1, 2019 From The Stop Button

I’m not sure how much would be different about Red Dust if the film weren’t so hideously racist, particularly when it comes to poor Willie Fung (as the houseboy), but at least it wouldn’t go out on such a nasty note. Especially since the finale, despite being contrived, at least plays to the f... Read full article

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Red Dust Quotes:

Vantine: I thought we might run up a few curtains and make a batch of fudge while we were planning on what to wear to the country club dance Saturday night.
McQuarg: If it was the summer of 1894, I'd play games with you, sister. But life is much simpler now.
Barbara Willis: That's a... a very polished little speech for a... barbarian.
Vantine: What you been eatin', cement?
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Red Dust Facts
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 6, 1940 with Clark Gable reprising his film role.
Clark Gable also starred in the 1953 remake Mogambo.
The original play first opened in New York on 2 January 1928.
Jean Harlow's famous rain-barrel bath is recreated in her film Bombshell.
After the suicide of her husband Paul Bern, which occurred during filming, most of Jean Harlow's scenes were re-shot, with higher neck-lines on her dresses.
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