Sadie Thompson (1928) - (Movie Clip) Your Own Salvation

Name: Sadie Thompson (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Your Own Salvation
Uploaded: 2020-07-22T00:00:00-04:00
Duration: 3 min 30 s
Description: Stuck together for now in a Pago Pago (a.k.a. American Samoa) inn, taking advantage of the forgiving nature of the title character (Gloria Swanson, also the producer, whose profession is known but never named), crusading freelance moralist Davidson (Lionel Barrymore) begins his campaign, in Sadie Thompson, 1928, from the famous Somerset Maugham story.

Stuck together for now in a Pago Pago (a.k.a. American Samoa) inn, taking advantage of the forgiving nature of the title character (Gloria Swanson, also the producer, whose profession is known but never named), crusading freelance moralist Davidson (Lionel Barrymore) begins his campaign, in Sadie Thompson, 1928, from the famous Somerset Maugham story.

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The quick pictorial introductions of the key characters, Lionel Barrymore and Blanche Frederici as the puritanical Davidsons, Charles Lane the more worldly MacPhail, then Gloria Swanson, the producer in the title role, in the first feature based on the provocative Somerset Maugham story, co-starring and directed by Raoul Walsh, Sadie Thompson, 1928.

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