Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Clark GableDennis Carson
- Jean HarlowVantine Jefferson
- Mary AstorBarbara "Babs" Willis
- Gene RaymondGary Willis
- Donald CrispGuidon
- Tully Marshall'Mac' McQuarg
- Forrester HarveyCaptain Limey
- Willie FungHoy
Recommendations
- 75
Chicago Tribune
An unpretentious, rowdy, lecherous good show. [28 Nov 1999, p.35] - 75
Orlando Sentinel
The first, and perhaps the best, of five Clark Gable-Jean Harlow vehicles. [08 Feb 1998, p.67] - 70
The New Yorker
Harlow is intensely liable, delivering her zingy wisecracks with a wonderful dirty good humor, and Gable is at that early peak in his career when he is so sizzlingly sexual that it seems both funny and natural for the two women to be fighting over him. - 70
Variety
Familiar plot stuff, but done so expertly it almost overcomes the basic script shortcomings and the familiar hot-love-in-the-isolated-tropics theme [from the play by Wilson Collison]. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
The second pairing of Clark Gable and Jean Harlow is a steamy drama of infidelity, set against an exotic background and peppered with dialog and situations that pushed the boundaries of Hollywood self-censorship as far as they would go. - 60
The Observer (UK)
No amount of resourceful set dressing can convince us that this poky MGM backlot is a perspiring slab of French Indochina in monsoon season. [03 Aug 2014, p.6] - 50
The New York Times
The atmosphere of this tale is more interesting than its story, especially the glimpses of the men at work.
