Red Dust (1932 film)

Red Dust
Red Dust
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Victor Fleming
Written by	Donald Ogden Stewart (uncredited)
Screenplay by	John Mahin
Based on	Red Dust; 1928 play; by Wilson Collison
Produced by	Hunt Stromberg (uncredited); Irving Thalberg; (uncredited)
Starring	Clark Gable; Jean Harlow; Mary Astor; Gene Raymond
Cinematography	Harold Rosson; Arthur Edeson
Edited by	Blanche Sewell
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	October 22, 1932;
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$408,000
Box office	$1.2 million

Red Dust is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Victor Fleming, and starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, and Mary Astor.^[2] It is based on the 1928 play of the same name by Wilson Collison, and was adapted for the screen by John Mahin.^[2]^[3] Red Dust is the second of six movies Gable and Harlow made together. More than 20 years later, Gable starred in a remake, Mogambo (1953), with Ava Gardner starring in a variation on the role Harlow played and Grace Kelly playing a part similar to one portrayed by Astor in Red Dust.

The film, set on a rubber plantation in French Indochina (present-day Vietnam), provides a view into the French colonial rubber business. It includes scenes of rubber trees being tapped for sap, the process of coagulating the rubber with acid, native workers being rousted, gales that can blow the roof off a hut and are difficult to walk in, the spartan living quarters, the supply boat that arrives periodically, a rainy spell that lasts weeks, and tigers prowling the jungle. The film's title is derived from the large quantities of dust stirred up by storms.

In 2006, Red Dust was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

^ ^a ^b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
^ ^a ^b Roberts, Jerry (2003). The Great American Playwrights on the Screen: A Critical Guide to Film, Video, and DVD. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 110. ISBN 1-55783-512-8.
^ Vieira, Mark A. (2009). Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince. University of California Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-0-520-94511-1.

[Mannix-1] The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

[roberts-2] Roberts, Jerry (2003). The Great American Playwrights on the Screen: A Critical Guide to Film, Video, and DVD. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 110. ISBN 1-55783-512-8.

[3] Vieira, Mark A. (2009). Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince. University of California Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-0-520-94511-1.

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