Rain

Director Lewis Milestone doing a roll call introducing W. Somerset Maugham's characters, notably Dr. MacPhail (Matt Moore), "reformer" Davidson (Walter Huston), innkeeper Horn (Guy Kibbee) and finally the star Joan Crawford as "Sadie Thompson," in Rain, 1932.

Without her usual provocative attire, days after being persuaded by the Christian “reformer” Davidson (Walter Huston, en route in a seafaring canoe to join her) to return to San Francisco to serve time as repentance, Sadie Thompson (Joan Crawford) visits with marine O’Hara (William Gargan), himself fresh after getting out of the brig in American Samoa, who’s against the idea, in Lewis Milestone’s Rain, 1932, from the W.S. Maugham story.

"Reformer" Davidson (Walter Huston) is tightening the screws on fallen Sadie (Joan Crawford), having arranged to have her deported from American Samoa, and a dramatic climax, in Rain, 1932, from Somerset Maugham's Miss Thompson.

In American Samoa at the inn run by Horn (Guy Kibbee), Sadie (Joan Crawford), who is all-but identified as a prostitute, gets friendly with marines (William Gargan, et al), Bates (Walter Catlett) and less so with Mrs. Davidson (Beulah Bondi), wife of the reformer, in Rain, 1932, from the Somerset Maugham story.