Wow! Such a good movie.

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

I have seen the Joan Crawford version of this story, called Rain, and also Gloria Swanson's version, called Sadie Thompson. They are both well worth seeing still, in spite of their age. But even the color and Rita couldn't save this one. This one just made me want to cry, all that waste. Gloria's face is so beautiful in the silent version that it takes your breath away. And Joan Crawford acted the hell out of the part when she did it. Poor Rita, she had one good musical number and that was pretty much it. There was great pathos in the two original movies, but this one was just pitiful. You want to see Mr. Davidson, the missionary? Take a look at what Walter Houston did to that part.Anyway, the scenery was beautiful and the technicolor was bright, and that's about as much as I can say for this movie.

i think Rita Hayworth does extremely well in this part of a vivacious, bawdy and flirty night singer given she was actually an extremely shy person at heart and was nothing like her character. this might sound strange but the story between Sadie and Mr Davidson rather reminded me of Esmarelda and Frollo. He was an obsessive moral preacher who despised and was attracted to her, she was a free spirited beautiful women who stands up to him at first, they have a big collision followed by her leaving the hotel, then having to return because he bad mouthed her all over the village, it sort of came as a shock at the end and sort of didn't when he rapes her whilst everyone is at the festival. The hotel is deserted. He is alone with her in her hotel room. She is defenceless. You sort of think you are seeing coming but you don't, the first sign he shows is when he won't moved completely from the doorway so she has to squeeze past him, after that he starts to walk nearer, closer to her then perhaps he should. Over all, its a good film, Rita shines and ferer gives you the creeps, the song 'the heat is on' will make you sizzle, its definitely worth a watch

Imagine Pat Robertson pointing his boney crazy fingers out of the screen at you and you've got the picture.Just saw this at the World 3-D Film Expo and it was quite enjoyable. The movie has great depth and wasn't filmed in a really gimmicky 3-D style. The transitions between location and sound stage work was fairly seamless and there were scenes I really wasn't certain if they were shot in Hollywood or the South Pacific.It's always interesting to stumble on old movies like these that resonate more than 50 years later. How much and how little has changed when it comes to religious zealots...hhmmm?

I am a big fan of Rita Hayworth but this film on the whole wasn't very satisfying for me. Ms. Hayworth of course is very glamorous and her musical numbers will get even the most lackadaisical viewer's attention. I also like Jose Ferrer who was especially brilliant in The Caine Mutiny. Now to the Aldo Ray character. I don't know if the character was written that way or not but Aldo's O'Hara comes across as a dullard. I know he played mentally deficient characters in films with Judy Holliday (The Marrying Kind) and Hepburn & Tracy (Pat & Mike) but here his simpleness detracts from the morality questions that the film tries to address with moderate levels of success. Can someone e-mail an explanation of the ending to me. I'm not sure I get it. With Davidson's death, Sadie is free to rendez-vous with O'Hara but if so doesn't that undo her repentance to go back and confront the sins of her past or is the film saying that since Davidson was a hypocrite so he had no moral authority to preach to Sadie to do so?