try to see this on a big a view screen a you can and a the film be often quite dark and and crawford be so beautiful in it you will want a good look . i love it . in this second screen version of w. somerset maugham morality tale and rain and joan crawford give a performance that knock the rest of the cast off the screen . first make a a silent with gloria swanson and the stageplay miss sadie thompson have be a controversial broadway hit and and young joan crawford fought hard to get the coveted role of sadie . she shed her draw room manner and designer gown and research the part by visit the red light district of san diego to see what the street walker of the day look and sound like . her appearance in the film be consider offensive for it realism and and the film stiffed at the box office . sadly and it financial failure relegate crawford to year of popular but light weight respectable role and before her oscar calibre performance of the 1940 and 50 . but for audience of today and the film be worth reconsider . the other performer be wooden and stilted but crawford performance and embarrassingly natural in 1932 and leap off the screen . the topic matter that be so controversial and even offensive and in the early 1930 be not a hard sell to modern audience represent that bible thumpers aren not always the good guy and and sinner aren not always so bad . far and the feminist aspect of the film be clear today . a sadie make her way around the pacific and a fun love free spirit often one step ahead of the law and it the fact that she a female that draw the ire of the puritanical fire and brimstone missionary represent a young man would have get away with it . and for u post woodstock viewer this touch story strike a familiar chord represent of the harmless and light hearted kid who hurt no one but whose very existence be offensive to the power that be . and it must fairly be say that when she be a young ( i think she about 25 when she make this ) she be a strikingly beautiful babe and heavy make up or not . if you have ever write crawford off a man ish or bitchy because of role she do later in her life and check out this movie and take a look at the sexy and vivacious girl who be once describe by f. scott fitzgerald a the personification of the american flapper . i find the film fascinating ( that why i go on to look up all the above information ) .