Red Dust
She fought for her mate with a tigress' fury…
RomanceDramainfidelityprostitutelove triangletigermonsoonplantationbased on play or musicalindochinagunshot woundjunglegunshotpre-code
A pre-Code romantic melodrama set in the colonial tropics, where desire and infidelity collide amid monsoons and moral ambiguity.
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives along with his refined wife Dennis is quickly infatuated by her.
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