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Sadie Thompson

Sadie could storm any barrack she attacked! Magnetism had never been heard of until she hit town! What a woman! You'll say so, too!

6.6(41)19281h 37m1

A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who is unfazed by her unsavory past. However, Mr. Davidson, a missionary who arrived on the island at the same time, aims to "save" Sadie from her sinful life and petitions to have her separated from her beau and deported back to San Francisco.

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Status
Released
Budget
$1M
Box office
$7M
Language
No Language
  • suicide
  • south seas
  • missionary
  • religion
  • silent film
  • religious hypocrisy
  • u.s. marine
  • zealot
  • partially lost film
  • fallen woman
  • rainy setting

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Director

Raoul Walsh

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR7 Jan 1928

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Sadie Thompson was released on 7 January 1928.

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    CinemaSerf

    4/16/2025

    7/10

    Gloria Swanson pretty much owned this production - on and off screen - as she depicts the eponymous character. A charming lady of dubious repute, she finds herself on a small Pacific island that’s populated by a squad of American marines and a fairly zealous Scottish minister. She is a bit skint, so she is relying on a degree of good will to sustain her until she can make her way on to Apia and to her job aboard a st…

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