Passionate roles like this aren´t really Rita Hayworth´s strong side, which results in that nothing she does in this movie feels natural or spontaneous. And José Ferrer as a missionaire moralist? They must be kidding!
The movie is about a free spirited girl named Sadie Thompson, who works on a bar on a tropical
island which serves as a military outpost. So she flirts with one, or two or maybe fifty of the guys there every night, dances and drinks beer. And there are some missionaires working on the island too. One of them (José Ferrer) recognises Sadie as a prostitute working on an imfamous nightclub on Honolulu and he threats to arrage to get her deported if she doesn´t leave the island immediately. (The funny thing is why no one asks what this "missionaire" had to do on this nightclub). So Sadie agrees in leaving and this missionaire rapes her before she leaves. (Another funny thing is that Sadie doesn´t look a bit devastated or sad because of the rape, but rather a little bit annoyed). And it finally turnes out that the missionaire was the one who felt the most sorry about the rape...(???????)
June 7, 2009
