

Sadie Thompson
DirectorRaoul Walsh
“Sadie could storm any barrack she attacked! Magnetism had never been heard of until she hit town! What a woman! You'll say so, too!”
A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who is unfazed by her unsavory past. However, Mr. Davidson, a missionary who arrived on the island at the same time, aims to "save" Sadie from her sinful life and petitions to have her separated from her beau and deported back to San Francisco.
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Cast

Gloria Swanson
Sadie Thompson

Lionel Barrymore
Alfred Davidson

Blanche Friderici
Mrs. Alfred Davidson

Charles Lane
Dr. Angus McPhail
Florence Midgley
Mrs. Angus McPhail

James A. Marcus
Joe Horn
Sophia Artega
Ameena

Will Stanton
Quartermaster Bates

Raoul Walsh
Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara

Charles Sullivan
Marine (Uncredited)
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