#red dust

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Jean Harlow as Vantine Red Dust (1932) Dir. Victor Fleming

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Jean Harlow and Clark Gable in Red Dust (1932)

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Headcanon.

Nicki was the one who created and leaked the antidote to Melina's brainwashing chemical. It was something she had been working on for sometime seeing how nations love to alter the minds of soldiers.

She recognised Melina's work almost immediately when she came across a younger widow sister.

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Clark relaxes, reading his script, on the set of the pre-code movie 'Red Dust', 1932.

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Red Dust (Victor Fleming, 1932)

Mary Astor and Clark Gable in Red Dust 

Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Mary Astor, Donald Crisp, Tully Marshall, Forrester Harvey, Willie Fung. Screenplay: John Lee Mahin, based on a play by Wilson Collison. Cinematography: Harold Rosson. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: Blanche Sewell. Costume design: Adrian.

Victor Fleming is the credited director on two of the most beloved films in Hollywood history: Gone With the Wind (1939) and The Wizard of Oz (1939). I say “credited director” because many other directorial hands were involved in both movies. Gone With the Wind is mostly the product of its obsessive, micromanaging producer, David O. Selznick, who fired the original director, George Cukor, some of whose scenes remain in the movie, along with others directed by Sam Wood and King Vidor. The Wizard of Oz, too, was primarily the work of its producers, Mervyn LeRoy and Arthur Freed; once again a director, Richard Thorpe, was fired from the film before Fleming was brought on, LeRoy directed some of the scenes, as did Cukor and Norman Taurog, and the Kansas scenes were directed by Vidor after Fleming went to work on GWTW. So was Fleming more than just a replacement director or a fixer of movies gone astray? The best evidence that Fleming was a good director on his own is Red Dust, a funny, sexy adventure romance that established Clark Gable as a top box-office draw. Fleming demonstrates a sure hand with the material, keeping it from bogging down in melodramatic mush in the scenes between Gable and Mary Astor. The action is set in Hollywood’s idea of a rubber plantation in French Indochina – what Vietnam was called back when Americans were pronouncing Saigon as “SAY-gone,” if the movie is to be trusted. Dennis Carson (Gable) manages the plantation when he is not being distracted by the arrival first of Vantine (Jean Harlow), a shady lady, and then of Barbara Willis (Astor) and her husband, Gary (Gene Raymond), an engineer who has been sent to survey an expansion of the plantation. Carson and Vantine have been spending several weeks of unwedded bliss before the Willises arrive, but pretty soon he is making a play for Mrs. Willis, using the old trick of sending the husband off to survey the swamps while she remains behind. All of this is handled with delicious innuendo, possible only because the Production Code had not yet gone into effect: for example, the scene in which Vantine rinses off in a rain barrel while Carson looks on (and in), or the fact that Carson and Mrs. Willis’s adultery goes unpunished except for a flesh wound. Both Harlow and Astor sashay around in improbable barely-there finery by Adrian. Fleming went on to make another pre-Code delight with Harlow, the screwball comedy Bombshell (1933), which contains an allusion to the Hays Office’s concerns about Red Dust. John Lee Mahin was screenwriter on both films, though some of the better lines in Red Dust were contributed by the uncredited Donald Ogden Stewart. The movie is marred only for today’s viewers by some period racism: the colonialist attitude toward the native laborers as “lazy” and the giggling Chinese houseboy played by Willie Fung.

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THE FACES OF PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD ROMANTIC DRAMAS -- PURE AMERICAN STYLE.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a studio publicity photo of American screen actors Clark Gable and Mary Astor, for the 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film, "Red Dust," directed by Victor Fleming. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clark-Gable-Mary-Astor-Red-Dust-1932-scene-portrait.JPG.

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Jim Burns, Red dust