Red Dust

TCM's Dave Karger introduces Red Dust, 1932.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Red Dust, 1932.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Red Dust, 1932.

South Asian rubber plantation boss Carson (Clark Gable) and aide Mac (Tully Marshall) are lamenting the blunders of drunken colleague Guidon (Donald Crisp) when they discover he's brought Vantine (Jean Harlow) home, increasing frustration, early in MGM's hit Red Dust, 1932.

Vantine (Jean Harlow), the hooker brought to the Indochinese rubber plantation by a drunk employee, is just leaving as the head man Carson (Clark Gable) greets his new surveyor Willis (Gene Raymond) and his most unexpected wife Barbara (Mary Astor), tension rising in Victor Fleming's Red Dust, 1932.

Famous scene as the showering party girl Vantine (Jean Harlow) flaunts the rules of the rubber plantation, irritating if not arousing the honcho Carson (Clark Gable) who hopes to be polite to Barbara (Mary Astor), the stuffier wife of his new surveyor, in Victor Fleming's Red Dust, 1932.

Opening sequence from Victor Fleming's torrid jungle romance Red Dust, 1932, introducing Clark Gable as rubber-plantation boss "Fred" Carson.

A plantation overseer in Vietnam is torn between a married woman and a prostitute in the pre-code drama Red Dust (1932) starring Clark Gable & Jean Harlow.