The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
A tenant farmer's son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owner's seductive daughter. (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Michael Curtiz
Written By: Paul Green, Harry Harrison Kroll
Starring: Clarence Muse, Bette Davis, Henry B. Walthall, Berton Churchill, Fred 'Snowflake' Toones, Dorothy Peterson, Richard Barthelmess, Edmund Breese, Hardie Albright, David Landau, Dorothy Jordan, Libby Taylor
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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The Cabin in the Cotton belongs to 2 collections
1. Pre-Code (collaborative: moderated by edsu - 7 stars)
2. Leaving Criterion Channel 2/29/20 (public: owen1218)
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| Oct 02, 2022 |  |
Timon88 | 66 60th |
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Someone at Warner's (Darryl Zanuck) finally figured out what to do with Bette Davis: cast her as a spitfire. This is the first role she ever got that truly suited her, and she plays it with intensity to burn. One wishes there were more of her here to watch. Barthelmess makes a rather odd hearthrob, but he's serviceable as a boy that tries to please everyone. Berton Churchill does some very good work as a very unlikable character.
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| Sep 22, 2021 | doyler29 | 60 18th |
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While it's hard to imagine Curtiz making an outright bad film, this comes perilously close largely due to Barthelmess' dull and stagy performance and his complete lack of chemistry with Davis. Davis is great despite the fact that Curtiz did not hide the fact that he didn't want her in the film. She almost looks like a completely different person with her hair bleached blonde, but she's kind of the one ray of light in this one.
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| Apr 30, 2017 |  |
TheDiceman | 50 35th |
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Not bad.
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| Aug 28, 2016 | Ella May | 65 32nd |
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More interesting than good, this is a racially whitewashed version of tenant farming in the American south in the early 20th century. It does show how tenant farming or share cropping had basically become involuntary servitude or debt bondage.
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| Jan 15, 2013 | PUNQ | 40 59th |
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While a moving story about a man caught between two sides in the political struggles at a cotton field, the movie lacks a lot in the acting department in leading man Richard Barthelmess who is just too wooden here. His style of acting can work sometimes, but not here. He looks so out of place! He holds the movie back big time while all the other character actors does their best and create some atmosphere. Not even a stunning Bette Davis managed to bring much out of him here.
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| Average Percentile 44.71% from 34 Ratings |  |