Rain (1932)

I was going to tell you about the Thai film "Tropical Malady" which I just finished watching, but between you, me and the lamp-post, I couldn't make head nor tail of it; there were two definite sections: in the first a soldier and an unemployed young man explore their mutual attraction -- and in the second a different soldier stalks a ghost tiger inhabited by a powerful shaman through the jungle -- or the tiger may have been stalking him.  Either way it was all just a wee bit tedious.  So I'll write about this old warhorse instead based on the Somerset Maugham story "Miss Sadie Thompson", all rather dated, but still great fun.  We have no-good girl, a young and trashy Joan Crawford, among a group of ship's passengers stranded in Pago Pago.  The group includes an uptight and puritanical missionary played by the great Walter Huston (father of John and grandfather of Anjelica).  On the surface he wants to save her soul but underneath, he lusts for her body.  And all the while it rains and rains.  You just know that there will be tears by bedtime.