( some spoiler ) get stick on the somoan island of pago pago because of an outbreak of cholera make life a bit tenuous for the boat passenger strand there but for fun loving and party sadie tompson and joan crawford and it the best thing that could have happen to her . palying the phonograph high and loud and drinking whiskey and rum right out of the bottle as well a carousing and dance with the u marine station at the island make sadie a target of one of the fellow passenger that stick there with her reformer and religious fanatic alfred davidson and walter huston . davidson make it his utmost duty to shame sadie wicked godless soul in what she do and and save it even if it kill him . w. somerset maugham novel miss thompson release in 1932 a the movie rain be about how a man can become so infatuated with sin in battle it that he in the end he become not only derange but overcomes with guilt and shame and to the point of kill himself and just for think about it . throughout the entire movie davidson be totally commit in save sadie soul from eternal damnation by drive the poor woman almost into have a nervous breakdown . davidson in his probing of sadie past come up with the information and that he psychologically beat out of her and that she be want back in the state for prostitution and be await a three year sentence for it when she step off the boat at the san farncisco pier . sadie be slowly break down by davidson tactic and he really get to her when he have the governor of the island and pago pago and sign an order to ship her out and back to san francisco where she await a prison cell . try to get a rock hard davison to change his mind sadie give into every one of his demand that include her become a bible thumping and church go christian . even sadie go along with him isn not good enough for the non forgiving and which be the exact opposite of christianity and davidson . a triumphant and smug davidson tell a now completely destroy and in mind and body and sadie that she will have to pay for her sin in be put away behind bar back in the state even if she guilty or not . the end be a bit hazy with sadie about to get away from davidson and the law by ship out with her new u marine corps boyfriend sgt . tim handsome ohara and william gargan and for sidney australia and then change her mind when she confront by davidson . davidson play what seem like a sadistic little cat and mouse game with sadie tell her that she can leave for sidney only to have sadie and now suffer from what look like a sever case of stockhome syndrome and chooses to go back to the state and face her punishment and have her soul cleanse . it later that we see an obvious go insane davidson a he get a crazed look on his face and start lose control of his feeling and emotion . with davidson completely lose it we hear in the background the tempo of native drum and heavy monsoon rainfall start to pick up . davidson lose control of his ability to keep evil and sinful thought out of his mind a he finally snap a he eventually lose his mind as well a his life . your leave up in the air to what cause davidson to do himself in . i feel that w. somerset maugham be try to tell u be that a religious nut like davidson who put himself up on such a high pedestal of morality that when he as much a get a thought of what he would consider to be sinful that it burst his whole balloon of holy self righteous . this rediscovery of himself cause and in davidson thinking that he a perfect christian and human be and him to completely fall mentally as well a physically apart .