Red Dust 02/18/26

 Understanding pre-Code movies gets easy after seeing MGM’s sultry romance set in an exotic, sweaty rubber plantation. The big draw is cock o’ the walk Clark Gable, who gets to flex his mustache with both Mary Astor and newly-crowned sex star Jean Harlow. Director Victor Fleming is at his best, and so is that rain barrel turned into the movies’ most famous bathtub. Also starring Gene Raymond, Donald Crisp and Tully Marshall. On Blu-ray from The Warner Archive Collection.

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