The Cabin in the Cotton

  • Drama
9/26/1932
78
NR

They said this book was "throbbing, vital, absorbing." (N.Y. American) You'll say the same thing about the picture!

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Writer:
Paul Green
    • daughter
    • based on novel or book
    • southern usa
    • son
    • education
    • tenant
    • poverty
    • black and white
    • confrontation
    • pre-code
    • social justice
    • lynch mob
    • landlord tenant relationship
    • rich girl
    • cotton
    • cotton picker
    • bookkeeper

    Cast

    • Richard Barthelmess
      Marvin Blake
    • Dorothy Jordan
      Betty Wright
    • Bette Davis
      Madge Norwood
    • Hardie Albright
      Roland Neal
    • David Landau
      Tom Blake
    • Berton Churchill
      Lane Norwood
    • Dorothy Peterson
      Lilly Blake
    • Russell Simpson
      Uncle Joe
    • Tully Marshall
      Slick
    • Henry B. Walthall
      Eph Clinton
    • Edmund Breese
      Holmes Scott
    • John Marston
      Russell Carter
    • Erville Alderson
      Sock Fisher
    • William Le Maire
      Jake Fisher
    • Clarence Muse
      A Blind Negro
    • Frank Austin
      Tenant Farmer (uncredited)

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