"RAIN" - 1932 Movie starring Joan Crawford, Walter Huston

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  • ziddina
    ziddina

    Oooo yeah!!! "Elmer Gantry"!!!

    Robert Mitchum had a leading role in "The Night of the Hunter" - it was another hard-hitting movie about the hypocritical behavior of certain "men of god"... Here's the short overview...

    "Harry Powell marries and murders widows for their money, believing he is helping God do away with women who arouse men's carnal instincts. Arrested for auto theft, he shares a cell with condemned killer Ben Harper and tries to get him to reveal the whereabouts of the $10,000 he stole. Only Ben's nine-year-old son, John and four-year-old daughter, Pearl know the money is in Pearl's doll and they have sworn to their father to keep this secret. After Ben is executed, Preacher goes to Cresap's Landing to court Ben's widow, Willa. He overwhelms her with his Scripture quoting, sermons and hymns, and she agrees to marry him. On their wedding night he tells her they will never have sex because it is sinful. When the depressed, confused, guilty woman catches him trying to force Pearl to reveal the whereabouts of the money, she is resigned to her fate but the children manage to escape downriver, with Preacher following close behind. ..."

    It's a pretty good movie, too - brings in the issues of domestic violence and murder of women by their husbands, the misogynistic attitude that women are responsible for making men lust after them, [how Islamic of them... Well, Islamic and Biblical...] that sex is 'sinful', and so on...

  • poppers
    poppers

    Just a heads up, it's on Netflix too as a streaming video.

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